The Six Arts

cog on 2004-11-04T11:11:04

Can anyone tell me what the six arts are?

So far, I'm with literature, painting, music, theater and sculpture... that's five...


My guess... ;)

Purdy on 2004-11-04T13:15:49

Coding.

there are seven!

domm on 2004-11-04T14:36:58

Even though I enjoyed 6 years of latin and 4 years of ancient greek I couldn't enumerate them off my head (well, search wikipedia was the layzier aproach..).

So, the seven arts are:
Grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic (or logic), grouped together in the trivium; and arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music, a.k.a. the quadrivium.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_arts for more info.

Re:there are seven!

cog on 2004-11-04T15:36:58

Wait a minute... Seven? Then how come is Cinema often regarded as being the 7th art? :-|

Re:there are seven!

chromatic on 2004-11-04T17:31:24

Film majors don't read their books very carefully.