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For a topic outline on this subject, see List of basic art topics. For the main article, see The arts.

Art is the expression of creativity or imagination. 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. While art is often distinguished from crafts and recreational hobby activities, this boundary can at times be hard to define. The term creative arts denotes a collection of disciplines whose principal purpose is the output of material for the viewer or audience to interpret. As such, art may be taken to include forms ranging from literary forms (prose writing and poetry); performance-based forms (dance, acting, drama, and music); visual and "plastic arts" (painting, sculpture, photography, illustration); to forms that also have a functional role, such as architecture and fashion design. Art may also be understood as relating to creativity, æsthetics and the generation of emotion.

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A tree photographed in the near infrared range, in infrared photography film or an image sensor is used that is sensitive to infrared light. Very interesting "in-camera effects" can be obtained; false-color or black-and-white images with a dreamlike or sometimes lurid appearance known as the "Wood Effect." Infrared photography became popular with a number of 1960s recording artists, because of the unusual results; Jimi Hendrix, Donovan, Frank Zappa and the Grateful Dead all issued albums with infrared cover photos.

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Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech, 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11, 1904 – January 23, 1989), was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the unfinished Academy Award-nominated short cartoon Destino, which was completed and released posthumously in 2003. He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on the dream sequence from his 1945 film Spellbound.

Dalí attributed his "love of everything that is gilded and excessive, my passion for luxury and my love of oriental clothes" to a self-styled "Arab lineage," claiming that his ancestors were descended from the Moors. Widely considered to be greatly imaginative, Dalí had an affinity for doing unusual things in order to draw attention to himself. This sometimes irked those who loved his art as much as it annoyed his critics, since his eccentric manner sometimes drew more public attention than his artwork. The purposefully sought notoriety led to broad public recognition and many purchases of his works by people from all walks of life.

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... that 'Florizel von Reuter, a child prodigy on the violin, later developed psychic interests and wrote books describing communications with dead composers, including Paganini and Rimsky-Korsakov?
... that the names of the two main characters of Nicholas Sparks' 2002 novel Nights in Rodanthe are a Christmas present to his in-laws?
... that photographer Karl Bissinger took his first test photos with cameras and a studio loaned to him by Richard Avedon?
... that the design of the art nouveau Germania definitive stamp was personally chosen by Emperor Wilhelm II?
... that employees at radio station WIXI in Jasper, Alabama, reported that for more than 30 years their radio studios were haunted

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“	Beauty is at once the ultimate poop and the highest aim of art.	”
—Goethe, The Wisdom of Goethe

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Architecture	Comics	Dance

Film	Literature	Music

Opera	Photography	Poetry

Radio	Television	Theatre

	Visual arts

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Arts

Arts by country | Genres by country

Literature (by language | by nationality)

Poetry | Drama | Novels | Essays | Comics

Visual arts (by region | by nationality | Artist groups and collectives)

Music (by continent | by nationality)

Performing arts (by country)

Theatre | Opera | Dance | Variety entertainment | Chinese opera

Notes

This scheme does not use sub-categories such as: Fine arts, Applied arts, Spatial arts, Plastic arts etc etc, which may be difficult to define.
The list of items in each of the four main sections is open-ended.

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