Level 4 Sublists

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Total 677 articles.

Class #Articles
FA 30
GA 35
FFA 26
DGA 38

Arts

This section contains 677 articles.

Arts: General

This section contains 3 articles.

  1.   The arts
  2.   Art
  3.   Artist

Architecture

This section contains 59 articles.

For construction technology, see: Technology: Infrastructure.

Cultural venues

This section contains 20 articles.

Literature

This section contains 220 articles.

Music

This section contains 140 articles.

Performing arts

This section contains 45 articles.

Visual arts

This section contains 110 articles.

For photographic technology, see: Technology: Optical technology.

History of art

This section contains 51 articles.

Pre-modern art

This section contains 16 articles.

  1.   Academic art
  2.   Ancient Greek art
  3.   Baroque
  4.   Classicism
  5.   Dutch Golden Age painting
  6.   Empire style
  7.   Gothic art
  8.   Hellenistic art
  9.   Mannerism
  10.   Prehistoric art
    1.   Cave painting
    2.   Rock art
  11.   Renaissance art
  12.   Rococo
  13.   Roman art
  14.   Romanesque art

Modern art

This section contains 21 articles.

  1.   Modern art
  2.   Abstract art
  3.   Abstract expressionism
  4.   Art Deco
  5.   Art Nouveau
  6.   Arts and Crafts movement
  7.   Avant-garde
  8.   Cubism
  9.   Dada
  10.   Expressionism
  11.   Futurism
  12.   Impressionism
  13.   Modernism
  14.   Neoclassicism
  15.   Post-Impressionism
  16.   Postmodernism
  17.   Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
  18.   Realism
  19.   Romanticism
  20.   Surrealism
  21.   Symbolism

Contemporary art

This section contains 6 articles.

  1.   Contemporary art
  2.   Conceptual art
  3.   Land art
  4.   Minimalism
  5.   Outsider art
  6.   Pop art

Non-Western art traditions

This section contains 8 articles.

  1.   African art
  2.   Chinese art
  3.   Indian art
  4.   Islamic art
  5.   Japanese art
    1.   Ukiyo-e
  6.   Persian art
  7.   Visual arts of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas

Concepts and forms

This section contains 31 articles.

  1.   Visual arts
  2.   Art criticism
  3.   Calligraphy
  4.   Ceramic art
  5.   Collage
  6.   Comics (Level 3)
    1.   Manga
  7.   Decorative arts
  8.   Drawing
  9.   Fashion
  10.   Folk art
  11.   Graffiti
  12.   Handicraft
  13.   Illustration
  14.   Mosaic
  15.   Mural
  16.   Optical illusion
  17.   Origami
  18.   Painting
    1.   Landscape painting
    2.   Oil painting
    3.   Watercolor painting
  19.   Perspective (graphical)
  20.   Portrait
  21.   Printmaking
    1.   Engraving
  22.   Religious art
  23.   Sculpture (Level 3)
  24.   Taxidermy
  25.   Textile arts
  26.   Wood carving

Specific works

This section contains 28 articles.

Painting

This section contains 17 articles.

  1.   A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
  2.   Along the River During the Qingming Festival
  3.   Arnolfini Portrait
  4.   The Birth of Venus
  5.     Campbell's Soup Cans
  6.   Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
  7.   The Garden of Earthly Delights
  8.   Guernica
  9.   The Last Supper
  10.   Las Meninas
  11.   Mona Lisa
  12.   The Night Watch
  13.   The Persistence of Memory
  14.   The Scream
  15.   Sistine Chapel
  16.   The Starry Night
  17.   Water Lilies

Sculpture

This section contains 8 articles.

  1.   David
  2.   Fountain
  3.   Olmec colossal heads
  4.   Pietà
  5.   Terracotta Army
  6.   The Thinker
  7.   Venus de Milo
  8.   Venus of Willendorf

Other media

This section contains 3 articles.

  1.   Bayeux Tapestry
  2.   Book of Kells
  3.   The Great Wave off Kanagawa

Modern visual arts

This section contains 61 articles.

Design

This section contains 6 articles.

  1.   Design
  2.   Graphic design
    1.   Typography
  3.   Interior design
  4.   Industrial design
  5.   Web design

Digital art

This section contains 2 articles.

  1.   Digital art
  2.   Computer graphics

Filmmaking

This section contains 53 articles.

Filmmaking: General

This section contains 8 articles.

  1.   Film (Level 3)
    1.   Animation
      1.   Anime
    2.   Silent film
  2.   Filmmaking
    1.   Cinematography
    2.   Special effect
    3.   Studio system

Cinema by country

This section contains 8 articles.

  1.   Cinema of the United States
  2.   Cinema of France
  3.   Cinema of India
    1.   Hindi cinema
  4.   Cinema of Japan
  5.   Cinema of China
  6.   Cinema of the Soviet Union
  7.   Cinema of Nigeria

Film festival and awards

This section contains 3 articles.

  1.   Film festival
    1.   Cannes Film Festival
  2.   Academy Awards

Films

This section contains 34 articles.

Animation

This section contains 2 articles.

  1.   Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
  2.   Toy Story
Art film

This section contains 1 article.

  1.   Mirror
Comedy

This section contains 2 articles.

  1.   City Lights
  2.   Dr. Strangelove
Documentary

This section contains 1 article.

  1.   Triumph of the Will
Drama film

This section contains 18 articles.

  1.  
  2.   Bicycle Thieves
  3.   Breathless
  4.   Children of Paradise
  5.   Citizen Kane
  6.   The Godfather
  7.   L'Atalante
  8.   La dolce vita
  9.   The Rules of the Game
  10.   Tokyo Story
Epic/Historical

This section contains 6 articles.

  1.   The Apu Trilogy
  2.   Battleship Potemkin
  3.   The Birth of a Nation
  4.   Lawrence of Arabia
  5.   Seven Samurai
  6.   The Seventh Seal
Horror/Thriller

This section contains 2 articles.

  1.   Psycho
  2.   Vertigo
Musical

This section contains 3 articles.

  1.   The Jazz Singer
  2.   Singin' in the Rain
  3.   The Sound of Music
Romance film

This section contains 2 articles.

  1.   Casablanca
  2.   Gone With the Wind
Science fiction/Fantasy

This section contains 4 articles.

  1.   2001: A Space Odyssey
  2.   Metropolis
  3.   Star Wars
  4.   The Wizard of Oz
Western

This section contains 1 article.

  1.   Stagecoach

Fictional and legendary characters

This section contains 19 articles.

For mythological and Biblical characters, see: Philosophy and religion: Mythology.