From the first to the ninth art

[Maciamo]

French speakers often use some paraphrases to call something by another name. It is common for English-speakers, for instance, to refer to 'New York' as the 'Big Apple' or to 'England/UK' as the 'nation of Shakespeare' (the French uses these too). French speakers often refer to 'cinema' as the 'seventh art' and 'comic strips' as the 'ninth art'. What I didn't know until today is what number was attributed to each art, probably in approximate chronological order. Here they are :

- the first art : architecture
- the second art : sculpture
- the third art : painting
- the fourth art : dance
- the fifth art : music
- the sixth art : poetry
- the seventh art : cinema
- the eighth art : television
- the ninth art : comic strips

Maybe the Internet will become the 'tenth art' (i.e. webdesign) ?

[Kinsao]

Now that is interesting! :cool:
To see the order of the 'arts'!

I am surprised not to see theatre on there somewhere. In some ways it can be seen as a kind of fusion/synthesis of sculpture (if you include the more 'recent' variation of installation art in the definition of sculpture ^^), dance, cinema/TV and music. That's just my take on it though! :p (I would have thought 'theatre' as a separate entity should be considered as 'an art' in itself; or maybe simply 'performance' as distinct from dance, TV and cinema... if considering a list such as that, although personally I don't find it so useful to 'classify' different types of 'arts'... not that there's any reason why not, just on a personal level it's not helpful to me, but that's another issue. :) )

In some cases things blur together; for example architecture and sculpture both share concerns with mass and form in 3 dimensions... :p (and dance deals with the same issues, with the additional problem of 'duration', if one can think of time as being part of the medium...)

I'll shut up now. :bluush: