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  2. Classificatory disputes about art - Wikipedia

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    Claude Monet, Impression, soleil levant (Impression, Sunrise), 1872, oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet. Art historians and philosophers of art have long had classificatory disputes about art regarding whether a particular cultural form or piece of work should be classified as art.

  3. The arts - Wikipedia

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    Performing arts comprise dance, music, theatre, opera, mime, and other art forms in which human performance is the principal product. Performing arts are distinguished by this performance element in contrast with disciplines such as visual and literary arts, where the product is an object that does not require a performance to be observed and ...

  4. Art - Wikipedia

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    Art, at its simplest, is a form of communication. As most forms of communication have an intent or goal directed toward another individual, this is a motivated purpose. Illustrative arts, such as scientific illustration, are a form of art as communication. Maps are another example. However, the content need not be scientific.

  5. Hierarchy of genres - Wikipedia

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    In his De Pictura ("About Painting") of 1441, Alberti argued that multi-figure history painting was the noblest form of art, as being the most difficult, which required mastery of all the others, because it was a visual form of history, and because it had the greatest potential to move the viewer. He placed emphasis on the ability to depict the ...

  6. Outline of the visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Visual artsclass of art forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, printmaking and others, that focus on the creation of works which are primarily visual in nature. Visual Arts that produce three-dimensional objects, such as sculpture and architecture , are known as plastic arts .

  7. History of art - Wikipedia

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    The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic visual form. Visual art can be classified in diverse ways, such as separating fine arts from applied arts ...

  8. Form and content - Wikipedia

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    Form follows function – Design philosophy of 19th–20th centuries; Found object – Non-standard material used in work of art; Found object (music) – Classification of musical instruments; L'art pour l'art – Slogan for art without any didactic, moral or utilitarian function; Sense and reference – Distinction in the philosophy of language

  9. List of art media - Wikipedia

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    The performing arts is a form of entertainment that is created by the artist's own body, face and presence as a medium. There are many skills and genres of performance; dance, theatre and re-enactment being examples. Performance art is a performance that may not present a conventional formal linear narrative.