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  2. Art music - Wikipedia

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    Art music (alternatively called classical music, cultivated music, serious music, and canonic music [1]) is music considered to be of high phonoaesthetic value. [2] It typically implies advanced structural and theoretical considerations [ 3 ] or a written musical tradition. [ 4 ]

  3. Performing arts - Wikipedia

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    Music is an art form which combines pitch, rhythm, and dynamic to create sound. It can be performed using a variety of instruments and styles and is divided into genres such as folk, jazz, hip hop, pop, and rock, etc. As an art form, music can occur in live or recorded formats, and can be planned or improvised.

  4. Painting - Wikipedia

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    Painting is a visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" [1] or "support"). [2] The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush , but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and airbrushes , may be used.

  5. The arts - Wikipedia

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    Music is defined as an art form whose medium is a combination of sounds. [55] Though scholars agree that music generally consists of a few core elements , their exact definitions are debated. [ 56 ] Commonly identified aspects include pitch (which governs melody and harmony), duration (including rhythm and tempo ), intensity (including dynamics ...

  6. Art - Wikipedia

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    The more recent and specific sense of the word art as an abbreviation for creative art or fine art emerged in the early 17th century. [18] Fine art refers to a skill used to express the artist's creativity, or to engage the audience's aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of more refined or finer works of art.

  7. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    The Art of Painting by Jan Vermeer. The term composition means "putting together". It can be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to the principles of art. Composition can apply to any work of art, from music through writing and into photography, that is arranged using conscious thought.

  8. Form and content - Wikipedia

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    It is often used merely to designate a genre or for patterns of meter lines and rhymes. For example, the subject of these two artworks is a bird, though both artworks are created in different styles. One is a two-dimensional artwork of two birds resting on a tree branch, created in a natural style, with realistic proportions.

  9. The Musicians (Caravaggio) - Wikipedia

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    The Musicians or Concert of Youths (c. 1595) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610). [1] The work was commissioned by Cardinal Francesco Maria del Monte, who had an avid interest in music. [2] It is one of Caravaggio’s more complex paintings, with four figures that were likely painted from ...