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Art is skill used to produce an aesthetic result. Arts or the arts encompasses visual arts, performing arts, language arts, and culinary arts. Many artistic disciplines involve aspects of the various arts, so the definitions of these terms overlap to some degree. The term art also refers to the physical forms produced or performed using those skills, such as a sculpted figure, a poem, or a piece of music.

The following topic outline is provided as an overview of and introduction to art:

Essence of art

Main articles: Art and The arts

• Aesthetics (a philosophical field related to art)
• Artist
• Media
• Work of art
• Art Instutions: muse, academy, gallery

Types of art

Main article: Art

• Applied art
• Conceptual art
• Decorative art
• Fine art
• Public art

Art forms

• Installation art
  • Video installation
• Literary art - see also List of basic literature topics
  • Poetry - see also List of basic poetry topics
  • Fiction - see also List of basic fiction topics
• Mathematics and art
• New media art
  • Artistic computer game modification
  • Ascii Art
  • Bio Art
  • Computer art
  • Digital art
  • Digital poetry
  • Electronic art
  • Evolutionary art
  • Generative art
  • Hacktivism
  • Information art
  • Interactive art
  • Internet art
  • Mathematics and art
  • Net art
  • Radio art
  • Robotic art
  • Software art
  • Sound art
  • Systems art
  • Video art
    • Video installation
  • Virtual art
• Performing arts and Performance art
  • Dance - see also List of basic dance topics
  • Music - see also List of basic music topics
  • Performance art
  • Theater - see also List of basic theatre topics
• Visual arts - see also List of basic visual arts topics
  • Cinematography and filmmaking - see also List of basic film topics
  • Photography - see also List of basic photography topics
    • Fine art photography
  • Plastic arts
    • Architecture - see also List of basic architecture topics
    • Drawing - see also List of basic drawing topics
    • Painting - see also List of basic painting topics
    • Sculpture - see also List of basic sculpture topics

Art genres

Main article: Genre

• Abstract art
• Erotic art
• Figurative art

Fiction genres

Main article: Literary genre

• Historical Fiction
  • Alternate history
  • Period Piece
  • Costume drama
  • Jidaigeki
• Adventure
• Action
  • Superhero
  • Military
  • Spy fiction
  • Swashbuckler
  • Martial arts film
    • Kung Fu
• Science Fiction
  • Military Science Fiction
  • Space Opera
• Punk
  • Cyberpunk
    • Postcyberpunk
    • Dieselpunk
  • Steampunk
    • Clockpunk
  • Biopunk
• Fantasy
  • Science Fantasy
  • Wuxia
• Romance
• Crime Fiction
  • Mystery
    • Murder Mystery
• Comedy
  • Comedy of manners
  • Parody
  • Black comedy
  • Romantic comedy
  • Comedic Science Fiction
  • Mockumentary
• Horror
  • Monster
  • Giant Monster
  • Slasher
  • Survival Horror
• Thriller
  • Disaster-Thriller
  • Psychological-Thriller
  • Crime-Thriller
  • Techno-Thriller
• Western

Film genres

Main article: Film genre

Genres unique to movies:

• Animation
  • Traditional Animation
  • Stop Motion
  • Computer Generated Images (CGI)
  • Puppetry
• Live Action

Painting genres

• History painting
• Genre works
• Portrait painting
• Landscape painting
• Still life painting

TV genres

Genres unique to television:

• Serial
• Reality Show
• Sitcom
• Soap
• Docudrama

Regional art

Main article: Arts by region

v • d • e Art of North America Sovereign states Antigua and Barbuda · Bahamas · Barbados · Belize · Canada · Costa Rica · Cuba · Dominica · Dominican Republic · El Salvador · Grenada · Guatemala · Haiti · Honduras · Jamaica · Mexico · Nicaragua · Panama1 · Saint Kitts and Nevis · Saint Lucia · Saint Vincent and the Grenadines · Trinidad and Tobago1 · United States Dependencies and other territories Anguilla · Aruba1 · Bermuda · British Virgin Islands · Cayman Islands · Clipperton · Greenland · Guadeloupe · Martinique · Montserrat · Netherlands Antilles1 · Puerto Rico · Saint Barthélemy · Saint Martin · Saint Pierre and Miquelon · Turks and Caicos Islands · United States Virgin Islands 1 Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the Americas (South America).

v • d • e Art of South America Sovereign states Argentina · Bolivia · Brazil · Chile · Colombia · Ecuador · Guyana · Panama1 · Paraguay · Peru · Suriname · Trinidad and Tobago1 · Uruguay · Venezuela Dependencies Aruba1 / Netherlands Antilles1 (Netherlands) · Falkland Islands / South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (UK) 2 / French Guiana (France) 1 Territories also in or commonly reckoned elsewhere in the Americas (North America and/or Central America).  2 Territories also in or commonly reckoned to be in Antarctica.

v • d • e Art of Oceania Australasia Australia · Christmas Island · Cocos (Keeling) Islands · New Zealand1 · Norfolk Island Melanesia East Timor2 · Fiji · New Caledonia · Papua New Guinea3 · Solomon Islands · Vanuatu Micronesia Federated States of Micronesia · Guam · Kiribati · Marshall Islands · Nauru · Northern Mariana Islands · Palau Polynesia American Samoa · Cook Islands · French Polynesia · Hawaii · Niue · Pitcairn Islands · Samoa · Tokelau · Tonga · Tuvalu · Wallis and Futuna 1 Often included in Polynesia.  2 Often included in Southeast Asia.  3 Often included in Australasia.

History of art

Main articles: History of art and Timeline of art

• Art history

By art form

By period