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  2. Pentimento - Wikipedia

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    The fully anglicised word pentiment (plural pentiments) is much rarer, though included in the Grove Dictionary of Art. The distinction between singular and plural is also rather flexible; some writers refer to a change of just one outline as pentimenti , whilst others treat each area that has been changed as a single pentimento .

  3. Plural - Wikipedia

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    These cases are described with the terms collective number and singulative number. Some languages may possess a massive plural and a numerative plural, the first implying a large mass and the second implying division (like the English modifer "respective[ly]"). For example, "the [combined] waters of the Atlantic Ocean" versus, "the waters of ...

  4. Phenomenon - Wikipedia

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    Often, this term is used without considering the causes of a particular event. Example of a physical phenomenon is an observable phenomenon of the lunar orbit or the phenomenon of oscillations of a pendulum. [4] A mechanical phenomenon is a physical phenomenon associated with the equilibrium or motion of objects. [5]

  5. Category:Glossaries of the arts - Wikipedia

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  6. Grammatical number - Wikipedia

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    Some Classical Arabic nouns may even compose the plural with itself yet again, to create the "plural plural plural" or triple plural, such as firqat, sect (singular); firaq, sects (plural); ʔafrāq, groups of sects (double plural); and ʔafārīq, groups of groups of sects (triple plural).

  7. Outline of the visual arts - Wikipedia

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    Visual arts – class 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 .

  8. Theory of art - Wikipedia

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    Traditionally, definitions are composed of necessary and sufficient conditions, and a single counterexample overthrows such a definition. Theorizing about art, on the other hand, is analogous to a theory of a natural phenomenon like gravity. In fact, the intent behind a theory of art is to treat art as a natural phenomenon that should be ...

  9. Simultaneous art - Wikipedia

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    Simultaneous art is a style of art that uses multiple, simultaneous discordant and confusing sensations and narratives to create art that was an experience, rather than an object. Each spectator's experience is a construct of multiple, simultaneous elements. The "meaning" of the art is indeterminate.