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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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L'ange de Nisida (The Angel of Nisida) is an opera semiseria in four acts by
Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti (pictured), from a libretto by Alphonse Royer
and Gustave Vaëz. Parts of the libretto are considered analogous with the libretto
for Giovanni Pacini's Adelaide e Comingio, and the final scene is based on the
François-Thomas-Marie de Baculard d'Arnaud play Les Amants malheureux, ou le comte
de Comminges. Donizetti worked on the opera in the autumn of 1839—its final page is
dated 27 December 1839. Because the subject matter involved the mistress of a
Neapolitan king, and may thus have caused difficulties with the Italian censors,
Donizetti decided that the opera should be presented in France. However, the
theater company Donizetti contracted went bankrupt. L'ange was never performed and
was reworked as La favorite in September 1840.
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Credit: Artist: John French Sloan; Restoration: Lise Broer

"After the war, a medal and maybe a job", an anti-World War I editorial cartoon
showing a soldier who is missing the lower half of his body dragging himself along
with his hands, with his intestines trailing behind him. A fat capitalist sitting
in a chair offers him a medal for his service.
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Did you know...

• ... that The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand (pictured) was the first
painting to demonstrate, based on systematic photographic analysis, how horses
move?
• ... that Cheyenne artist Bently Spang satirized anthropologists'
depictions of Native Americans as a "lost culture" with a museum exhibit showcasing
ordinary objects?
• ... that Bagyi Aung Soe, now recognized as one of Burma's most
important modern artists, lived in poverty and was considered by some to be mad?
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In this month

• 5 February 1972 – The American Modernist poet Marianne Moore dies in

New York City at the age of 84
• 6 February 1918 – The Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, one of
the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement, dies in Vienna
• 19 February 1704 – Ichikawa Danjūrō I (pictured), an early and
influential kabuki actor, is stabbed and killed onstage by fellow actor Ikushima
Hanroku
• 24 February 1607 – Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, the earliest opera
that is still performed today, premieres in Mantua
• 27 February 1877 – Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake premieres to poor
reviews
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News

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O'Riordan dies at 46
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• November 7: Kazakhstan: President Nazarbayev signs decree to change
Kazakh characters from Cyrillic to Latin-based script
• October 24: Five United States ex-presidents raise relief funds at
hurricane event
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Felice Beato was a British and Italian photographer. He was one of the first
photographers to take pictures in East Asia and one of the first war photographers.
He is also noted for his genre works, portraits, and views and panoramas of the
architecture and landscapes of Asia and the Mediterranean region. Beato's travels
to many lands gave him the opportunity to create powerful and lasting images of
countries, people and events that were unfamiliar and remote to most people in
Europe and North America. To this day his work provides the key images of such
events as the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and the Second Opium War and his photographs
represent the first substantial oeuvre of what came to be called photojournalism.
He had a significant impact on other photographers, and Beato's influence in Japan,
where he worked with and taught numerous other photographers and artists, was
particularly deep and lasting.
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An example of Kyrie eleison being performed as a Gregorian chant, directed by Fr.

Dariusz Smolarek SAC.
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