art. The major general surveys on topics in the fine arts are painting painting, direct application of pigment to a surface to produce by tones of color or of light and dark some representation or decorative arrangement of natural or imagined forms.

See also articles on individual painters, e.g., Rubens ; countries, e.g.
..... Click the link for more information. ; sculpture sculpture, art of producing in three dimensions representations of natural or imagined forms. It includes sculpture in the round, which can be viewed from any direction, as well as incised relief , in which the lines are cut into a flat surface.
..... Click the link for more information. ; drawing drawing, art of the draftsman. In its broadest sense it includes every use of the delineated line and is thus basic to the arts of painting, architecture, sculpture, calligraphy, and geometry.
..... Click the link for more information. ; photography photography, still, science and art of making permanent images on light-sensitive materials.

See also photographic processing ; motion picture photography ; motion pictures .
..... Click the link for more information. , and architecture architecture, the art of building in which human requirements and construction materials are related so as to furnish practical use as well as an aesthetic solution, thus differing from the pure utility of engineering construction.
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art

also called visual art

A visual object or experience consciously created through an expression of skill or imagination. The term art encompasses diverse media such as painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing, decorative arts, photography, and installation. The various visual arts exist within a continuum that ranges from purely aesthetic purposes at one end to purely utilitarian purposes at the other. This should by no means be taken as a rigid scheme, however, particularly in cultures in which everyday objects are painstakingly constructed and imbued with meaning. Particularly in the 20th century, debates arose over the definition of art. Figures such as Dada artist Marcel Duchamp implied that it is enough for an artist to deem something “art” and put it in a publicly accepted venue. Such intellectual experimentation continued throughout the 20th century in movements such as conceptual art and Minimalism. By the turn of the 21st century, a variety of new media (e.g., video art) further challenged traditional definitions of art. See aesthetics; art conservation and restoration; drawing; painting; printmaking; sculpture; photography; decorative arts.

(1) A compressed image format from AOL. AOL browsers default to compressing JPEGs and GIFs into the .ART format to speed up graphics downloading. Internet Explorer can also render ART files.

(2) (Automated Reasoning Tool) A general expert system written in LISP that is used with various AI techniques for different applications.

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ART - A real-time functional language. It timestamps each data value when it was created.

["Applicative Real-Time Programming", M. Broy, PROC IFIP 1983, N-H].

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