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An artist's palette

An artist's palette

The arts is a vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors 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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Harris Theater (left) and The Heritage at Millennium Park (right) viewed from
Randolph Street
The Joan W. and Irving B. Harris Theater for Music and Dance is a 1525-seat theater
for the performing arts located along the northern edge of Millennium Park in the
Loop community area of Chicago. The theater was named for its primary benefactors,
Joan and Irving Harris. It serves as the Park's indoor performing venue, a
complement to Jay Pritzker Pavilion, which hosts the park's outdoor performances.
Constructed in 200203, it is the city's premier performance venue for small- and
medium-sized music and dance groups. It provides subsidized rental, technical
expertise, and marketing support for the companies using it, and turned a profit in
its fourth fiscal year. The Harris Theater has hosted notable national and
international performers, such as the New York City Ballet's first visit to Chicago
in over 25 years (in 2006). Performances have included the San Francisco Ballet,
Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Stephen Sondheim. The theater has been credited as
contributing to the performing arts renaissance in Chicago, and has been favourably
reviewed for its acoustics, sightlines, proscenium and for providing a home for
numerous performing organisations.
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General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm (1897)
Credit: Photochrom: Photoglob Zrich; Restoration: Lise Broer

A photochrom print of the General Art and Industrial Exposition of Stockholm

complex on the island of Djurgrden, located in central Stockholm, Sweden. Several
of the structures built for the 1897 World's Fair still remain on the western part
of the island, including Djurgrdsbron, the main bridge to the island; the Skansens
Bergbana, the funicular railway now in the Skansen open air museum and zoo; and the
Nordic Museum.
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Wrigley Square

... that Wrigley Square's Millennium Monument (pictured) is a near replica of a

monument destroyed in 1953 that stood in almost the exact same location in Chicago,
Illinois?
... that French singer Patricia Kaas' 1997 album Dans ma chair was certified
Platinum by the SNEP?
... that rock climber Peter Harding developed the art of hanging from one hand
jammed into a crack, while smoking a cigarette with the other?

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Muse du Louvre

10 August 1793 The Muse du Louvre (pictured), one of the world's largest
museums, opens with an exhibition of 537 paintings
16 August 1945 American ballerina Suzanne Farrell for whom George Balanchine
created many new ballets is born in Cincinnati, Ohio
18 August 1933 Polish director and screen-writer Roman Polanski, whose
Academy Award winning films include Knife in the Water, Rosemary's Baby, and The
Pianist, is born in Paris
19 August 1953 Gholam-Hossein Saedi, one of the first modern playwrights of
Iran, is arrested during the 1953 Iranian coup d'tat
30 August 1953 Gaetano Merola, the Italian conductor and founder of the San
Francisco Opera, dies in San Francisco while conducting a performance of Madame
Butterfly

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July 30: British dancer and talent show winner Robert Anker dies in car
accident aged 27
July 25: Linkin Park's lead singer Chester Bennington dies at 41
June 18: Academy Award-winning director John G. Avildsen dies aged 81
June 12: Batman star Adam West dies aged 88
June 2: Man posthumously marries Legion of Honour recipient in France

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1885 hand-coloured albumen silver print by Farsari of three Maiko posing on an
engawa
Adolfo Farsari (18411898) was an Italian photographer based in Yokohama, Japan.
Following a brief military career, including service in the American Civil War, he
became a successful entrepreneur and commercial photographer. His photographic work
was highly regarded, particularly his hand-coloured portraits and landscapes, which
he sold mostly to foreign residents and visitors to the country. Farsari's images
were widely distributed, presented or mentioned in books and periodicals, and
sometimes recreated by artists in other media; they shaped foreign perceptions of
the people and places of Japan and to some degree affected how Japanese saw
themselves and their country. His studio the last notable foreign-owned studio in
Japan was one of the country's largest and most prolific commercial photographic
firms. Largely due to Farsari's exacting technical standards and his
entrepreneurial abilities it had a significant influence on the development of
photography in Japan.
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Roxana Pavel Goldstein and Elias Goldstein (violins) with the DePaul Symphony
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Earl Warren
That there is a social problem presented by obscenity is attested by the
expression of the legislatures of the forty-eight States, as well as the Congress.
To recognize the existence of a problem, however, does not require that we sustain
any and all measures adopted to meet that problem. The history of the application
of laws designed to suppress the obscene demonstrates convincingly that the power
of government can be invoked under them against great art or literature, scientific
treatises, or works exciting social controversy. Mistakes of the past prove that
there is a strong countervailing interest to be considered in the freedoms
guaranteed by the First and Fourteenth Amendments.
Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (Roth v. United States, 1957)
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