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Kabuki actor Izumo no Okuni.
Kabuki actor Izumo no Okuni.
Native American tribal dance as painted by John White.
Piazza Pretoria, Palermo, Sicily.
Cave painting from Lascaux.
"Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula" by Wassily Kandinsky, 1908.
Wayang puppet.
Balinese wayang puppet.
Title page of Cervantes's Don Quixote de la Mancha, 1605.
Ludwig van Beethoven.
Still from the 1902 film Voyage dans la lune.
Little Sammy Sneeze by Winsor McKay.

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[edit] Founded

2006.04.21 by Ham.

[edit] Scope

The scope of this project covers all articles relating to the fine arts and performing arts.

[edit] Goals

  1. Fostering an active and interdisciplinary arts community on Wikipedia. Currently WikiProjects related to the arts suffer from long periods of inactivity, so what is needed is a single Wikiproject bringing together users of differing specialities, in the mould of the successful Science WikiProject. Contributors interested in the arts are vastly outnumbered by pop or geek culture experts as it is, so it is better to co-ordinate the efforts of the former group as much as possible than to segregate them into insular and unsuccessful WikiProjects on their particular topic of interest.
  2. Maintaining the Arts Wikiportal, one of the most prominent links on the Main Page, and its subportals.
  3. Starting an arts collaboration of the week. This will only go ahead when a sufficient number of participants have expressed their support for a weekly collaboration to be effective.
  4. Arts categorization. This project aims to reorganize categories relating to the arts and promote consistancy between arts-related categories. This project is being developed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arts/Categorization.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

The descendants of this WikiProject are:

[edit] Portals

Help with the upkeep of these Portals would be much appreciated:

"Art means to dare — and to have been right."
Ned Rorem

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Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay.
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Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay.

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We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless.
Oscar Wilde

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WikiProject Arts
Announcing the creation of WikiProject Arts, an effort to create a collaboration between all arts projects and artistically-minded Wikipedians in order to improve arts coverage.
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