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The oldest documented forms of art are visual arts, which include images or objects in fields like painting, sculpture, printmaking , photography, and other visual media . Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however, like the decorative arts, it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential, in a way that they usually are not in another visual art, like a painting. Traditional categories within the arts include literature , the visual arts (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.), the graphic arts , the plastic arts , the decorative arts (enamelwork, furniture design, mosaic, etc.), the performing arts , music , and architecture . See media help.Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary. The noun "literature" comes from the Latin word littera meaning "an individual written character ." The term has generally come to identif