Art, in its broadest meaning, 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.
...that English book collector Sir Thomas Phillipps acquired some 40,000 printed books and 60,000 manuscripts over the course of his lifetime?
...that the image of Benjamin Franklin on the U.S. hundred dollar bill (pictured) is based on a painting by the French artist Joseph Duplessis?
...that 1971's Out of the Darkness was the first Thai science fiction film?
...that Blackadder II, the second series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, contains many tongue-in-cheek references to the plays of William Shakespeare?
...that Ken Richmond, the last gongman of the Rank Organisation, was a 1952 Summer Olympics wrestling medalist and actor in Jules Dassin's Night and the City?
...that in 1661, Lisle's Tennis Court in Lincoln's Inn Fields, London became the first public theatre in England to feature moveable scenery on sliding wings?
...that voice artists who made Gavrilov translations of foreign movies in Russia were once thought to have used a noseclip to conceal their identity?
...that the artist Sigrid Hjertén, a crucial figure in Swedish modernism, tragically died following an awkwardly performed lobotomy?
