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Traditionally, the term ''art'' was used to refer to any skill or mastery. This conception changed during the [[Romanticism|Romantic]] period, when art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science". (Gombrich) Generally, art is made with the intention of stimulating thoughts and emotions. Traditionally, the term ''art'' was used to refer to any skill or mastery. This conception changed during the [[Romanticism|Romantic]] period, when art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science". (Gombrich) Generally, art is made with the intention of stimulating thoughts and emotions.
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-The nature of art has been described by [[Richard Wollheim]] as "one of the most elusive of the traditional problems of human culture". It has been defined as a vehicle for the expression or communication of emotions and ideas, a means for exploring and appreciating [[Formalism (art)|formal elements]] for their own sake, and as ''[[mimesis]]'' or [[Representation (arts)|representation]]. [[Leo Tolstoy]] identified art as a use of indirect means to communicate from one person to another. [[Benedetto Croce]] and [[R.G. Collingwood]] advanced the [[Idealism|idealist]] view that art expresses emotions, and that the work of art therefore essentially exists in the mind of the creator. The theory of art as form has its roots in the philosophy of [[Immanuel Kant]], and was developed in the early twentieth century by [[Roger Fry]] and [[Clive Bell]]. Art as ''mimesis'' or representation has deep roots in the philosophy of [[Aristotle]]. More recently, thinkers influenced by [[Martin Heidegger]] have interpreted art as the means by which a community develops for itself a medium for self-expression and interpretation. 
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* (''Human effort''): [[creation]], [[grandeur]], [[wonder]] * (''Human effort''): [[creation]], [[grandeur]], [[wonder]]

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Nazi Germany disapproved of contemporary German art movements such as Expressionism and Dada and on July 19, 1937 it opened the Degenerate art travelling exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich, consisting of modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels  deriding the art, to inflame public opinion against modernity.
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Nazi Germany disapproved of contemporary German art movements such as Expressionism and Dada and on July 19, 1937 it opened the Degenerate art travelling exhibition in the Haus der Kunst in Munich, consisting of modernist artworks chaotically hung and accompanied by text labels deriding the art, to inflame public opinion against modernity.
Piranesi, Deuxième frontispice - Le Antichità Romane, tome II
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Piranesi, Deuxième frontispice - Le Antichità Romane, tome II
Olympia by Édouard Manet, painted in 1863, it stirred an uproar when it was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon. Today, it is considered as the start of modern art.
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Olympia by Édouard Manet, painted in 1863, it stirred an uproar when it was first exhibited at the 1865 Paris Salon. Today, it is considered as the start of modern art.

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«La culture, c’est la règle, et l’art, c’est l’exception» --Jean-Luc Godard

s]]. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings. The meaning of art is explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics.

Traditionally, the term art was used to refer to any skill or mastery. This conception changed during the Romantic period, when art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science". (Gombrich) Generally, art is made with the intention of stimulating thoughts and emotions.

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Definition

The term art is used to describe a particular type of creative production generated by human beings, and the term usually implies some degree of aesthetic value. An artist makes a work of art for various purposes, such as creating an experience for others or as part of a ritual. There is no general agreed-upon definition of art, since defining the boundaries of "art" is subjective, but the impetus for art is often called human creativity.

Art, in its broadest meaning, is the expression of creativity or imagination, or both.

Throughout the written history of humankind, various constrictions have been applied to the broad concept. Most individuals know what they consider to be art, and what they believe is not art. Additionally, groups, such as academia, have a vaguely shared notions of what is, or is not, art.

The word art is often used to refer to the visual arts, and arts is used to refer to visual art, literature, music, dance — the fine arts. However, such distinctions are the subject of many discussions and debates.

Art seems to be almost universal throughout the human race — integral to the human condition. There are no cultures that do not participate in it to some extent, and child art is created by all from about the first birthday.

Etymology

The word art derives from the Latin ars, which, loosely translated, means "arrangement" or "to arrange", though in many dictionaries the word's listing is tautologically translated as "art". This is the only universal definition of art, that whatever it is was at some point arranged in some way. A few examples where this meaning proves very broad include artifact, artificial, artifice, artillery, medical arts, and military arts. However, there are many other colloquial uses of the word, all with some relation to its etymological roots.

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academic art - abstract art - anti-art - body art - conceptual art - contemporary art - dada - decadent art - decorative art - electronic art - degenerate art - expressionism - fantastic art - impressionism - Fluxus - futurism - landscape - minimalism - Mannerism - modern art - Modernism - pop art - postmodern art - romanticism - realism - renaissance - surrealism - symbolism - transgressive art

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For the eye - For the ear - For the mind


List of visual artists

A - Marina Abramoviæ - Vito Acconci - Jacques Fabian Gautier d'Agoty - Laurie Anderson - Arcimboldo - B - Balthus - Matthew Barney - Jean-Michel Basquiat - Aubrey Beardsley - Max Beckmann - Vanessa Beecroft - Hans Bellmer - Richard Bernstein - Gilles Berquet - Fred Bervoets - Joseph Beuys - Guillaume Bijl - Arnold Böcklin - Hieronymus Bosch - Marcel Broodthaers - Pieter Brueghel the Elder - François Boucher - C - Rupert Carabin - Caravaggio - Pierre Cardin - Paul Chabas - Lucas Cranach - Gustave Courbet - André Courrèges - John Currin - D - Salvador Dalí - Honoré Daumier - Eugène Delacroix - Luc Deleu - Wim Delvoye - Achille Devéria - Danny Devos - Otto Dix - Gustave Doré - Marcel Duchamp - Albrecht Dürer - E - James Ensor - Tracey Emin - Max Ernst - F - Jan Fabre - Eric Fischl - Henry Fuseli - Piero Fornasetti - G - Antoni Gaudí - Théodore Géricault - Jean-Léon Gérôme - H. R. Giger - Gilbert & George - Vincent van Gogh - Francisco de Goya - Dan Graham - Grandville - Hans Baldung Grien - George Grosz - Matthias Grünewald - H - Richard Hamilton - Keith Haring - Raoul Hausmann - Damien Hirst - Hokusai - Jenny Holzer - I - Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres - J - Allen Jones - Frida Kahlo - Yves Klein - Gustav Klimt - K - Mike Kelley - Jeff Koons - L - Jean-Jacques Lebel - Fernand Léger - Tamara de Lempicka - Mirka Lugosi - M - René Magritte - Edouard Manet - Piero Manzoni - Marcel Mariën - Quentin Massys - Alessandro Mendini - Claude Monet - Gustave Moreau - Otto Mühl - Pierre Molinier - Carlo Mollino - William Morris - Edvard Munch - N - Hermann Nitsch - O - Chris Ofili - Orlan - P - Panamarenko - Francis Picabia - Georges Pichard - Pablo Picasso - Giovanni Piranesi - Jackson Pollock - R - Paco Rabanne - Marcantonio Raimondi - Man Ray - Paula Rego - Jamie Reid - Félicien Rops - Peter Paul Rubens - S - Andres Serrano - Egon Schiele - Cindy Sherman - Romain Slocombe - Robert Smithson - Hajime Sorayama - Eric Stanton - T - Roland Topor - Clovis Trouille - Luc Tuymans - V - Leonardo da Vinci - W - Andy Warhol - James Whistler - John Willie - Z - Unica Zürn

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