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The arts is a vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors An artist's palette
and disciplines. It is a broader term than "art", which, as a description of a field,
usually means only the visual arts. The arts encompass the visual arts, the literary
arts and the performing arts music, theatre, dance and film, among others. This
list is by no means comprehensive, but only meant to introduce the concept of the
arts. For all intents and purposes, the history of the arts begins with the history of
art. The arts might have origins in early human evolutionary prehistory
.

Ancient Greek art saw the veneration of the animal form and the development of
equivalent skills to show musculature, poise, beauty and anatomically correct proportions. Ancient Roman art depicted
gods as idealized humans, shown with characteristic distinguishing features (e.g. Jupiter's thunderbolt). In Byzantine and
Gothic art of the Middle Ages, the dominance of the church insisted on the expression of biblical and not material truths.
Eastern art has generally worked in a style akin to Western medieval art, namely a concentration on surface patterning and
local colour (meaning the plain colour of an object, such as basic red for a red robe, rather than the modulations of that
colour brought about by light, shade and reflection). A characteristic of this style is that the local colour is often defined by
an outline (a contemporary equivalent is the cartoon). This is evident in, for example, the art of India, Tibet and Japan.
Religious Islamic art forbids iconography, and expresses religious ideas through geometry instead. The physical and
rational certainties depicted by the 19th-century Enlightenment were shattered not only by new discoveries of relativity by
Einstein and of unseen psychology by Freud, but also by unprecedented technological development. Paradoxically the
expressions of new technologies were greatly influenced by the ancient tribal arts of Africa and Oceania, through the works
of Paul Gauguin and the Post-Impressionists, Pablo Picasso and the Cubists, as well as the Futurists and others.

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The Magdalen Reading Felice Beato was a British

is one of three surviving and Italian photographer.
fragments of a large mid- He was one of the first
15th century oil-on-oak photographers to take
altarpiece by the early pictures in East Asia and
Netherlandish painter one of the first war
Rogier van der Weyden. photographers. He is also
Completed some time noted for his genre works,
between 1435 and 1438, it has been in the portraits, and views and panoramas of the
National Gallery, London since 1860. It shows architecture and landscapes of Asia and the
a woman with the pale skin, high cheek bones Mediterranean region. Beato's travels to many
and oval eyebrows typical of the idealised lands gave him the opportunity to create
portraits of noble women of the period. The powerful and lasting images of countries,
woman is identifiable as the Magdalen from people and events that were unfamiliar and
the jar of ointment placed in the foreground, remote to most people in Europe and North
which, according to the Gospels, she used to America. To this day his work provides the
clean Christ's feet. The background of the key images of such events as the Indian
painting had been overpainted with a thick Rebellion of 1857 and the Second Opium War
layer of brown paint. A cleaning between 1955 and his photographs represent the first
and 1956 revealed the figure standing behind substantial oeuvre of what came to be called
the Magdalen and the kneeling figure with bare photojournalism. He had a significant impact
feet protruding in front of her, with a landscape on other photographers, and Beato's influence
visible through a window. The original in Japan, where he worked with and taught
altarpiece was a sacra conversazione known numerous other photographers and artists, was
only through a drawing, Virgin and Child with particularly deep and lasting.
Saints. The panel was purchased by the
National Gallery from a collector in Paris. It is
described by art historian Lorne Campbell as Featured audio
"one of the great masterpieces of 15th-century
art and among van der Weyden's most U.S. Army Band - A la Nanita Nana edit
important early works."
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A la Nanita Nana, a Spanish Christmas carol,

Featured picture performed by the U.S. Army Band Chorus in
Spanish and English.

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"life will not perish! It will begin anew with love; it will
start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the
wilderness, and to it all that we did and built will mean
nothingour towns and factories, our art, our ideas will
all mean nothing, and yet life will not perish! Only we
have perished. Our houses and machines will be in
ruins, our systems will collapse, and the names of our
great will fall away like dry leaves. Only you, love, will
blossom on this rubbish heap and commit the seed of
life to the winds.
Karel apek, R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots), 1921

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