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  2. 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.

  3. Modern sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Site specific environmental art was described as a movement by architectural critic Catherine Howett [28] and art critic Lucy Lippard. [29] Land art, Earthworks, is an art movement that makes specific use of the real landscape to form works of sculpture that are located in and make use of nature generally in altered

  4. Sculpture - Wikipedia

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    In archaeology and art history the appearance, and sometimes disappearance, of large or monumental sculpture in a culture is regarded as of great significance, though tracing the emergence is often complicated by the presumed existence of sculpture in wood and other perishable materials of which no record remains; [3]

  5. 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 ...

  6. Mandala - Wikipedia

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    The mandala represents the nature of the Pure Land, Enlightened mind. An example of this type of mandala is Vajrabhairava mandala a silk tapestry woven with gilded paper depicting lavish elements like crowns and jewelry, which gives a three-dimensional effect to the piece. [10] [11]

  7. Composition (visual arts) - Wikipedia

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    Form suggests a three-dimensional object in space. It is also described as the physical nature of the artwork, such as sculptures. It can also be looked at as art form, which can be expressed through fine art. A form encloses volume, has length, width, and height, unlike a shape, which is only two-dimensional.

  8. Monumental sculpture - Wikipedia

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    In archeology and art history the appearance, and sometimes disappearance, of monumental sculpture (using the size criterion) in a culture, is regarded as of great significance, though tracing the emergence is often complicated by the presumed existence of sculpture in wood and other perishable materials of which no record remains; [7] the totem pole is an example of a tradition of monumental ...

  9. Assemblage (art) - Wikipedia

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    In the thirties he made a skeleton with wings of mucilage, adopting this style years before other artists. Later, Reverón made instruments and set pieces such as a telephone, a sofa, a sewing machine, a piano and even music books with their scores. In 1961, the exhibition "The Art of Assemblage" was featured at the New York Museum of Modern Art.