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  2. Artistic inspiration - Wikipedia

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    In Greek thought, inspiration meant that the poet or artist would go into ecstasy or furor poeticus, the divine frenzy or poetic madness. The artist would be transported beyond their own mind and given the gods' or goddesses own thoughts to embody. Inspiration is prior to consciousness and outside of skill (ingenium in Latin). Technique and ...

  3. Relationship between avant-garde art and American pop culture

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    Avant-garde, as sociologist Diana Crane states, "was an art-form that had started in Europe that had started in the early nineteenth century."While the art form has survived for this long, she states that the concept of the art form is "highly ambiguous" and it has been through many phases throughout its existence, including Dadaism, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, and pop art.

  4. Wikipedia : Contents/Outlines/Culture and the arts

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    Culture – set of shared attitudes, values, goals, and practices that define a group of people, such as the people of a particular region. Culture includes the elements that characterize a particular peoples' way of life. The arts – vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. The arts encompasses visual ...

  5. Wikipedia:Contents/Culture and the arts - Wikipedia

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    The word art comes from the Latin word ars, which, loosely translated, means "arrangement". Art is commonly understood as the act of making works (or artworks) which use the human creative impulse and which have meaning beyond simple description. Art is often distinguished from crafts and recreational hobby activities.

  6. Jean-Michel Basquiat - Wikipedia

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    The song primarily addresses the drug scene of New York at that time. Reid was inspired to write the song after receiving a phone call from Greg Tate informing him of Basquiat's death. [331] In August 2014, Revelation 13:18 released the single "Old School" featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat, along with the self-titled album Revelation 13:18 x Basquiat.

  7. Chess in the arts - Wikipedia

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    Continuing into the 20th century, artists created works related to the game often taking inspiration from the life of famous players or well-known games. An unusual connection between art and chess is the life of Marcel Duchamp, who in 1923 almost fully suspended his artistic career to focus on chess. [41] [42] [43]

  8. Art and culture in Francoist Spain - Wikipedia

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    Artists active in Francoist Spain include the writers José María Pemán, Agustín de Foxá and Luis Rosales, the painters Carlos Sáenz de Tejada and Fernando Álvarez de Sotomayor, architect and sculptors of the Valle de los Caídos, and the music of Concierto de Aranjuez, Quintero, León y Quiroga, the films of José Luis Sáenz de Heredia and Luis Lucia Mingarro.

  9. Authenticity in art - Wikipedia

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    The authenticity of provenance of an objet d’art is the positive identification of the artist and the place and time of the artwork's origin; [7] thus, art experts determine authenticity of provenance with four tests: (i) verification of the artist's signature on the work of art; (ii) a review of the historical documentation attesting to the ...