seventh art

Meaning

Noun

• The making of motion pictures; filmmaking.

Origin

• , which was coined by Italian film theoretician Ricciotto Canudo around 1921 considering filmmaking to be a new art combining the six previous arts of architecture, sculpture, painting, music, poetry, dance. Canudo previously used the term sixième art around 1911 when he did not include dance in the set of preceding arts.