Arts & Aesthetic Practice¶
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The creative practice of making works in visual, performing, and time-based media, together with the theory and criticism of those works. Distinguished from Humanities by the centrality of making (not just interpreting).
33 primes · 251 domain-specific abstractions across 4 domains in this group. Both layers draw on the same canonical roster; a domain's group is derived from it, never stored on an entity.
| Domain | Primes | Domain-specific |
|---|---|---|
| Art & Aesthetics | 25 | 94 |
| Film & Media Production | 0 | 30 |
| Music & Musicology | 8 | 113 |
| Performing Arts & Theatre Studies | 0 | 14 |
Art & Aesthetics
The theory and practice of the visual, plastic, and conceptual arts, together with the philosophical study of beauty, perception, and artistic value. Canonical traditions: classical aesthetics (Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel), formalism, expressionism, conceptual art, art criticism, visual studies.
See also: Philosophy, Literature & Literary Theory, Music & Musicology, Film & Media Production, Architecture & Urban Planning
25 primes
- Abstraction in Art
- Affordance
- Color Harmony
- Composition
- Contrast
- Emphasis (Focal Point)
- Form and Content
- Gestalt Principles
- Iconography
- Juxtaposition
- Lead-and-Support Hierarchy
- Metaphor (Visual/Artistic)
- Minimalism
- Minimalism in Art
- Motif
- Movement (Visual Movement)
- Negative Space
- Ornamentation
- Pattern (in Design)
- Perspective
- Proportion and Scale
- Record Reconciliation
- Sublime
- Texture
- Unity & Variety
94 domain-specific abstractions
- Acquisition event
- Aerial Perspective
- Aesthetic Coherence
- Aesthetic emotions
- Anamorphosis
- Art for art's sake
- Art forgery
- Artistic License
- Ballad
- Basketweave (knitting)
- Burnishing (pottery)
- Carborundum Printmaking
- Cardboard Modeling
- Cast paper
- Characters per line
- Chekhov's Gun
- Chromolithography
- Color Printing
- Contour drawing
- Crease pattern
- Cropping (image)
- Damascening
- Databending
- Decorum
- Decoupage
- Deliberative Rhetoric
- Delivery (in Rhetoric)
- Development Section
- Devoré
- Diegesis
- Diegetic Level
- Digital Painting
- Digital Photography
- Drip Painting
- Droste effect
- Endomosaic
- Focal Plane Tomography
- Foreshadowing Cue
- Formalism (Art)
- Fugue
- G7 Method
- Glitch Art
- Golden Hour (Photography)
- GPS Drawing
- Gyotaku
- Hyleme
- Impressionist mosaics
- Indentation (typesetting)
- Infinite Canvas
- Islamic Geometric Patterns
- … and 44 more — see all
Film & Media Production
The craft and theory of cinematic and screen-based storytelling — spanning dramaturgy, cinematography, editing, sound design, production pipelines, and distribution. Canonical traditions: classical Hollywood continuity, Soviet montage theory, auteur theory, post-production and VFX pipelines, digital and transmedia practice.
See also: Art & Aesthetics, Communication & Media Studies, Literature & Literary Theory
30 domain-specific abstractions
- 180-degree rule
- Animation
- Artistic Control
- Cameo lighting
- Cinematography
- Color grading
- Day for Night
- Double-system recording
- Dream Sequence
- Dutch angle
- Female gaze
- Filler Episode
- Film Grammar
- Film Promotion
- Film transition
- Four-wall distribution
- Game balance
- High concept
- Hyperlink Cinema
- Ken Burns effect
- Movie Packaging
- Non-Linear Editing
- Post-Production
- Prestige Picture
- Previsualization
- Production budget
- Reaction shot
- Sequence (filmmaking)
- Shot/Reverse Shot
- Stop motion
Music & Musicology
The study and practice of organized sound — composition, performance, music theory, ethnomusicology, and the cognitive and cultural dimensions of musical experience. Canonical traditions: Western music theory (counterpoint, harmony, form), ethnomusicology, popular music studies, music cognition, music information retrieval.
See also: Art & Aesthetics, Cognitive Science (music cognition), Mathematics (music theory has deep formal structure)
8 primes
- Cadence
- Dissonance
- Improvisation
- Polyphony
- Rhythm
- Suspension
- Tension And Release
- Theme And Variation
113 domain-specific abstractions
- A-Flat Major
- All-Interval Tetrachord
- Ambitus
- Atonality
- Bar-line shift
- Basso Continuo
- Blind octave
- Boogie
- Bouncing Ball (Music)
- Breedsma
- Canter rhythm
- Cantometrics
- Cell (music)
- Change ringing
- Chord Inversion
- Chord progression
- Chord-scale system
- Circle of thirds
- Clave (rhythm)
- Colored music notation
- Coltrane Changes
- Complement (music)
- Consecutive Fifths
- Consonance
- Corelli cadence
- Counterpoint
- Crab canon
- Cymbal choke
- Dance Music
- Diatonic and Chromatic
- Diminished Triad
- Double Variation
- Eclecticism in music
- Enharmonic equivalence
- Eye music
- Faking (jazz)
- Fortepiano (Musical Dynamic)
- Four on the floor (music)
- Homophony
- Interpolation (classical music)
- Invisible auditor
- Landini Cadence
- Leitmotif
- Long Metre
- Loudness War
- Lyric setting
- Major Limma
- Matrix (music)
- Microtonality
- Modulation
- … and 63 more — see all
Performing Arts & Theatre Studies
The study and practice of live performance — drama, dance, opera, and devised work — together with performance theory, dramaturgy, stagecraft, and audience studies. Canonical traditions: Aristotelian dramatic theory, Stanislavski's system, Brecht's epic theatre, postdramatic theatre, performance studies (Schechner).
See also: Art & Aesthetics, Music & Musicology, Film & Media Production
14 domain-specific abstractions