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Art
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Art is very difficult to define.
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One definition of Art
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When something's purely utilitarian or functional nature is modified for the purpose of enhancing it and making it excite our senses and/or stir emotions.
2.An attempt by someone to express or communicate a feeling, idea, etc. |
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Art is a cultural
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universal
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expressive culture
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what the manifestations of art are sometimes called
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Body Arts
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Artificial artistic enhancement or beautification of the human body. Makeup
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Physical Alterations:
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hair styles, head shaping, foot binding – usually done because it is considered beautiful, or to show person’s individuality or status.
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Body painting
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temporary manner of changing an individual’s appearance (e.g. war paint, mourning). makup
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Tattooing and scarification
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usually associated with societies in which there are permanent differences in social status.
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Sometimes gender says what art you could do
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Visual Arts
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Arts that are produced in a material or tangible form.
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Performance Arts
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Forms of art that involve sound and/or stylized body movements.
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!Kung shaman use music, dance, and song to induce trance by warming up a substance in their bodies called
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n!um
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Folk art
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music, and lore refering to the expressive culture of ordinary people
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Folklore
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Folklore includes all the myths, legends, folktales, fairy tales, ballads, riddles, proverbs, and superstitions of a cultural group.
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In Africa, art goes back at least
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77,000 years.
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In Europe, art goes back at least
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30,000 years.
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societies that don't have full time positions in art are usually
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Non-state level societies. While here in the USA there are full time artists
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