Art

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English: Art is any of a diverse range of human activities carried out to appeal, provoke and stimulate the mind, senses and emotions.

This page can only ever be illustrative not comprehensive, click on thumbnails for descriptions and on links to explore.

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Visual arts[edit]

Galleries and museums[edit]

Main category: Museums

Drawing[edit]

Main category: Drawings
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Painting[edit]

Main category: Paintings
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Portraits[edit]

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  • The Qing Dynasty Consort Yehonara.JPG
  • Rembrandt self portrait.jpg

Landscapes[edit]

Main category: Landscape paintings
  • Ma Yuan - Dancing and Singing- Peasants Returning from Work.jpg
  • Peter Paul Rubens - A Landscape with a Shepherd and his Flock.jpg

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  • Amaldus Nielsen-Aften ved Frederiksstad.jpg
  • A bluegreen landscape by Tani Buncho.jpg

Still life[edit]

Main category: Still life
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  • Orchids, Bamboo and Rock.jpg
  • CamprobinFlores.jpg
  • Yun Shouping, Peonies.jpg
  • Two sunflowers.jpg

Sculpture[edit]

Main category: Sculpture
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  • Statua di zeus o poseidone.JPG
  • Dama de Elche.jpg
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  • 20041229-Olmec Head (Museo Nacional de Antropología).jpg
  • Gal Viharaya 03.jpg
  • Kitain-2166.jpg
  • Ardhanarisvara.jpg
  • Moáis.jpg
  • Michelangelos David.jpg
  • Personnage à la guimbarde - Man with a jew's harp.jpg
  • Degas-dancer.jpg
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  • Auguste Rodin - Grubleren 2005-02.jpg
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Architecture[edit]

Main category: Architecture
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  • Patio Arrayanes.jpg
  • Sri Ranganathasvamy temple in Tiruchirapalli 01.jpg
  • Korea-Seoul-Changdeokgung-Daejojeon-02.jpg
  • Il Duomo Florence Italy.JPG
  • Taj Mahal Agra.jpg
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  • Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II Milan May 2009.jpg
  • Chrysler building from street 2.jpg
  • Van der Rohe Pavillion overview.jpg
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  • Whitevale Bluevale flats.jpg
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  • Hong Kong Night Skyline non-HDR.jpg

Decorative arts[edit]

Main category: Decorative arts
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  • Versailles Queen's Chamber.jpg
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  • Bedroom furniture by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.jpg
  • Elevated Art.jpg
  • Tile panel flowers Louvre OA3919-2-297.jpg
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  • Khatam detail.jpg
  • Morris Evenlode printed textile.jpg
  • Knossos fresco in throne palace.JPG
  • Herculaneum - Casa di Nettuno ed Anfitrite - Mosaic.jpg
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  • Guri Amir brick ornament.JPG
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Ceramics[edit]

Main category: Ceramics
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  • Athena Enkelados Louvre CA3662.jpg
  • Han Dynasty ceramic prancing horse.jpg
  • Porcelaine chinoise Guimet 281104.jpg
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Glassware[edit]

Calligraphy[edit]

Main gallery: Calligraphy.
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Land art[edit]

Main category: Land art
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  • Dean Franklin - 06.04.03 Mount Rushmore Monument (by-sa) - original.jpg
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Photography[edit]

Vernacular photography
English: The predominant vernacular art of the late 20th and early 21st century, photography may be artistic intentionally, or as a result of accidental art.

The following external links link to local copies of copyrighted works

Performance art[edit]

Dance[edit]

Main category: Dance
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  • Korean Traditional Dance - Book Choom.jpg
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  • Dancer doing a one-handed handstand.jpg

Theatre[edit]

Main category: Theatre

Theatres[edit]

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  • Globe Theatre Innenraum.jpg
  • Open Air Theatre - stage - Regent's Park, London - 2005-06-22.jpg
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Stage[edit]

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  • A graça da vida.jpg
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Puppet theatre[edit]

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Musical theatre and variety[edit]

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Circus[edit]

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  • Acrobats at Cirque du Soleils Nouvelle Experience Finale 1994.jpg
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  • AerialShowgirlsTissu1.jpg
  • Clown Civertan.jpg

Performance art[edit]

Main category: Performance art
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WGI Sport Of The Arts[edit]

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Music[edit]

Musicians and instruments[edit]

Western art music[edit]

Classical music by period[edit]
Baroque[edit]

  • Pachelbel, Pachelbel's Canon

  • Vivaldi, "L'estate", Allegro non molto, The Four Seasons

  • Bach, Air for G string (BWV 1068, D major)

  • Purcell, The Queen's Dolour

  • François Couperin, Cinquieme Prelude

Classical[edit]

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Concerto in D for Flute (K314)

  • Beethoven, Moonlight sonata 3rd movement, Sonata No. 14 C# minor

Romantic[edit]

  • Felix Mendelssohn, Violin Concerto in E Minor (Op. 64), 1st movement.

  • Camille Saint-Saëns, The Carnival of the Animals

  • Johannes Brahms, Sixteen Waltzes for piano, four hands (Op. 39), No. 1 in B major.

Modern[edit]

  • Igor Stravinsky-3 Pieces for Clarinet Alone

Opera[edit]

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Opera audio files[edit]

  • Wagner, Die Walküre

  • Smetana, Bartered Bride overture

  • Enrico Caruso and Nellie Melba, La Boheme - O soave fanciulla

  • Antonio Scotti, Tosca, Gia mi dicon venal

  • Enrico Caruso, Rigoletto

Literature[edit]

Main category: Literature
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Poetry[edit]

Art by period[edit]

Main category: Art by period
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Art movements[edit]

Main category: Art by movement

Street art[edit]

Main category: Street art
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  • Frederick Douglass mural on the 'Solidarity Wall', Belfast.jpg
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Digital art[edit]

Main category: Digital art
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New media art[edit]

Main category: New media art
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  • Eduardo Kac - Genesis - Ars Electronica 99.jpg
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Religion and art[edit]

Main category: Religion and art
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  • Rozeta Paryż notre-dame chalger.jpg
  • Sassoferrato - Jungfrun i bön.jpg
  • Diamond sutra.jpg
  • Bromptoncross.jpg
  • Angkor Wat 01.jpg

  • Handel, Hallelujah Chorus

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  • Shaker cabinet.jpg

Politics and art[edit]

  • Meister der Jahângîr-Memoiren 001.jpg
  • Oliver Cromwell Statue top.jpg
  • ArnoBrekerDiePartei.jpg

Science and art[edit]

Main category: Science and technology in art

  • Delhi Jantar

  • Mercator World Map

  • Blake: Ancient of Days

  • Experiment on a Bird

  • Pericrocotus flammeus

Commercial art[edit]

Main category: Commercial art
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  • Lewis Carroll - Henry Holiday - Hunting of the Snark - Plate 5.jpg
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  • Are You Experienced - US cover.jpg
  • Hudson Theatre NYC 1910s.jpg
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Accidental art[edit]

Main category: Accidental art

Artistic inspiration[edit]

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