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  2. List of found objects - Wikipedia

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    This list of found objects is a list of notable artworks, by artist, which are found objects (or are composed of found objects). These are each followed by a description of the "found" components. Louis Hirshman; Albert Einstein (1940) Caricature using mop hair, brush for nose and mustache, abacas chest. Gifted to the Philadelphia Museum of Art ...

  3. Art & Architecture Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The Art & Architecture Thesaurus (AAT) is a controlled vocabulary used for describing items of art, architecture, and material culture. The AAT contains generic terms, such as "cathedral", but no proper names, such as "Cathedral of Notre Dame." The AAT is used by, among others, museums, art libraries, archives, catalogers, and researchers in ...

  4. Artifact (archaeology) - Wikipedia

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    Artifact (archaeology) An artifact[a] or artefact (British English) is a general term for an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest. [1] In archaeology, the word has become a term of particular nuance; it is defined as an object recovered by archaeological endeavor ...

  5. The arts - Wikipedia

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    The arts are considered various practices or objects done by people with skill, creativity, and imagination across cultures and history, viewed as a group. [1] These activities include painting, sculpture, music, theatre, literature, and more. [2] Art refers to the way of doing or applying human creative skills, typically in visual form. [3] [4]

  6. Found object - Wikipedia

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    A found object (a calque from the French objet trouvé), or found art, [1][2][3] is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have a non-art function. [4] Pablo Picasso first publicly utilized the idea when he pasted a printed ...

  7. Work of art - Wikipedia

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    Definition. A work of art in the visual arts is a physical two- or three- dimensional object that is professionally determined or otherwise considered to fulfill a primarily independent aesthetic function. A singular art object is often seen in the context of a larger art movement or artistic era, such as: a genre, aesthetic convention, culture ...

  8. Minimalism - Wikipedia

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    Minimalism in visual art, sometimes called "minimal art", "literalist art" [ 5 ] and "ABC Art", [ 6 ] refers to a specific movement of artists that emerged in New York in the early 1960s in response to abstract expressionism. [ 7 ] Examples of artists working in painting that are associated with Minimalism include Nassos Daphnis, Frank Stella ...

  9. List of American artists - Wikipedia

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    A list by date of birth of historically recognized American fine artists known for the creation of artworks that are primarily visual in nature, including traditional media such as painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking, as well as more recent genres, including installation art, performance art, body art, conceptual art, video art, and digital art.