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It makes little sense in my opinion to have such complex categorisation and sub-categorisation in this area.

I would suggest that since Art most often refers to the visual or Fine Arts, that the subject is clarified with a top-level category of Art followed by subsections such as Artist, Media, perhaps in the following hierarchy, or something similar:

Art

  Artist
  Artists
     Contemporary Artists
     Painters
     Sculptors
     20th Century Artists
     Artists by nationality
     Artists by medium
     Artists by period
     ...
  Art Media
  Two dimensional art
     painting
        painting media
           oil painting
           watercolour painting
           ...
     drawing
     printmaking
        printmaking media
           lithography
           intaglio
           ...
     photography
     ...
     graphic design
     illustration
     ...
   Three dimensional art
      Sculpture
         sculpture media
            plaster
            clay
            ...
      Ceramics
         Ceramic sculpture
         Functional ceramics
         ...
   Four dimensional art
      Film
      Video
      Performance
      ...

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Duncanssmith (talk • contribs) 14:15, 13 April 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Art categories[edit]

A page is created at Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts/Art categories to plan art categories. Previous discussions are at Category talk:Art, Category talk:Visual arts and Category talk:Artists (there are likely more that I haven't found). The current schema on Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts/Art categories combines much of what is in previous discussions. --sparkit (talk) 16:01, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)