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  2. The arts - Wikipedia

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    Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of art. [78] [79] [80] Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty. [79] [80] A goal of art criticism is the pursuit of a rational basis for art appreciation [78] [79] [80] but it is questionable whether such criticism can transcend prevailing ...

  3. Art for Your Sake - Wikipedia

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    The National Art Society (NAS), which was formed shortly before Art for Your Sake debuted, [1] helped to produce the program, which had as host Bernard Myers, [2] a professor of art history at New York University. The program sought to extend appreciation of, and access to, art "to audiences far removed from the refinements and dilettantism of ...

  4. Visual arts education - Wikipedia

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    1881 painting by Marie Bashkirtseff, In the Studio, depicts an art school life drawing session, Dnipropetrovsk State Art Museum, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine. Visual arts education is the area of learning that is based upon the kind of art that one can see, visual arts—drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, and design in jewelry, pottery, weaving, fabrics, etc. and design applied to more ...

  5. The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

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    Benjamin presents the thematic bases for a theory of art by quoting the essay "The Conquest of Ubiquity" (1928), by Paul Valéry, to establish how works of art created and developed in past eras are different from contemporary works of art; that the understanding and treatment of art and of artistic technique must progressively develop in order to understand a work of art in the context of the ...

  6. Art criticism - Wikipedia

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    Art criticism is the discussion or evaluation of visual art. [1] [2] [3] Art critics usually criticize art in the context of aesthetics or the theory of beauty. [2] [3] A goal of art criticism is the pursuit of a rational basis for art appreciation [1] [2] [3] but it is questionable whether such criticism can transcend prevailing socio ...

  7. Art - Wikipedia

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    [Art is a set of] artefacts or images with symbolic meanings as a means of communication. – Steve Mithen [79] Art as entertainment. Art may seek to bring about a particular emotion or mood, for the purpose of relaxing or entertaining the viewer. This is often the function of the art industries of motion pictures and video games. [80] The ...

  8. John Brosio - Wikipedia

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    Brosio's exhibitions include the solo show of his tornado paintings at the National Academy of Sciences Museum by the Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences opening in October of 2008 and closing in January of 2009, [15] [16] [4] as well as exhibitions at Sue Greenwood Fine Art gallery, [17] [18] Arcadia Contemporary galleries in California and New York, [3] [19] the John ...

  9. Landscape painting - Wikipedia

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    In Europe, as John Ruskin said, [30] and Sir Kenneth Clark confirmed, landscape painting was the "chief artistic creation of the nineteenth century", and "the dominant art", with the result that in the following period people were "apt to assume that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part ...