I was looking up the gender of “arte” (art) in Spanish – it’s masculine and feminine, depending on whether you are using it in the singular or plural – and discovered that cinema is known as the 7th art in Spain.
That prompted me to look up what the other arts are (which are identically numbered in French). They are listed below. The first 5 were defined by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and the sixth and seventh arts were added by Ricciotto Canudo:
- architecture
- sculpture
- painting
- dance
- music
- poetry
- cinema
According to some sources, there have been later additions to the list (photography, cartoons, video games and multimedia), but Hegel’s original idea was to rank the fine arts, and other than photography, I wouldn’t rate the later additions as fine arts.
Doesn’t Banksy count as art??
Yes, but not as “fine art”. And I don’t think that graffiti was around in Hegel’s time. There’s a definition of fine arts in Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine_art.