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The chairman of ARTOC Group for Investment & Development, Egyptian businessman, philanthropist and art collector Mohammad Shafik Gabr is renowned in elevated circles as a consummate networker.

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Under art is often defined as anything made by man and which seeks the human mind and senses to stimulate originality and / or beauty. This can be art (paintings, drawings, sculptures, photography), but also music, film, literature, theater, dance and architecture. Other human expressions, which are assumed to have little originality own (simple paintings, Bouquet Series novels, exploitation films) or that people want to stimulate for other reasons (eg advertising) are usually not part of the art considered, but the boundary between art and kitsch (non-art) is not easy to pull.

In civil engineering, one speaks of art, but this is primarily to function, and purpose of the human mind and senses to stimulate originality and / or beauty is secondary.

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Art - a definition

Art is that which is created with the intention of standing (any of) the human senses and excite the human spirit. [

The quality of an artwork is judged on the basis of the nature and extent of the excitement it causes. Often the excitement stems from a combination of beauty and originality, sometimes indefinable way. But the strength of the stimulation, the number of people who are excited, how well the stimulus is valued, and how much impact and influence the stimulation appears to have or have had all contributes to "the level of art." Timeless masterpieces in art meet all highly.

Something is not considered art if it is only the senses and stimulates the mind only, or a primary purpose other than that. Examples: a picture of a beautiful waterfall decoration, or sometimes kitsch. It stimulates only the eyes but not the spirit. However, the waterfall is in a special way or in an original context depicted, so the mind is also stimulated, it will be seen as art. A nice background tune (Muzak) is not an art but emotionally stirring music does.

A successful Hollywood movie is sometimes regarded as art. This stimulates the senses and the mind of many people. But if the movie much more influence in the film world and is quickly forgotten, it's not high art. [Source?] Addition, one could argue that some films are made with profit the primary goal, and are therefore less regarded as art.

An architectural structure like a bridge can also contain artistic elements, and even art are assessed. But as a bridge a primary purpose other than that, a bridge is generally not considered art.

Sometimes something that was not originally created as art for art to be elevated, such as canned tomato soup by Andy Warhol. The object loses its original meaning and then get the new idea to excite the human spirit, and so "Art".

A generally accepted "official" definition of art does not exist

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Viewed from the author or observer

Art can be viewed from the author or the observer (in impressionistic sense).

From the author expresses the view of the imagination or feelings of the artist in a creative activity.

Seen from the observer is an artistic creation that the observer evokes a feeling or imagination, with the aim of producing an original, sensible (or otherwise imagine) or expression product with a certain emotional value or performance. Usually does art appeals to the human sense of aesthetics, but it can also sometimes shocking part with it. The observer provides the opportunity for art to be taken from daily reality, a world created by that artist, or else the ability to transform everyday reality from a different perspective to experience.

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Arts and crafts

An early meaning of the word "art" or craft skills. Basket Making is such an art, but also a craft. If the basket maker only has the intention to make a basket large enough to contain a few pounds potatoes, can not be said that he was an artist. He is probably a skilled craftsman. But he also to the basket the best looking, unique shape to try to formulate it is almost certain that with an artist to do and that his way to weave the arts can be counted. Creating stand-alone work (no mass) has long been a prerequisite for something called art. Using modern techniques, this since the 80 less important. Today we know art in many different forms of digital self. Photos, movies, music and even some websites can now be called art.

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Art with the intent and meaning as we know it today has only arisen in the period of the Renaissance. Before then, art was not seen as an individual expression but as a means to give form to religious symbols and narratives. Artists such as sculptors, painters and sculptors, were until the end of the Middle Ages regarded as a special elite craftsmen. They worked mostly on behalf of church leaders, and wealthy families, and made such a sculpture or painting ceilings. The signing of an artwork as confirmation of the individual artist as we know it today was unusual at the time. The oldest forms of art dating from 22,000 BC and probably had a strong religious or symbolic significance and were used for example in the context of a ritual. One example is the Venus of Willendorf. Later forms of art (music, dance, theater, and drawing / painting) were made in honor of a special event like a wedding or a throne.

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The value judgments of the beholder

A characteristic common to all works of art, be it a painting, a theater or literature: art possesses a certain pattern, a specific design. The artist has been carefully composed. Yet this does not always have to look. Art is only art when it is detected, the viewer (listener, sensor, tester, etc.) that the art may perceive it beautiful or ugly, both the goal of the artist have been. The way the audience receives the work and what reaction it provokes in critics, also called the front desk.

An artist puts into his work often have deep feelings of joy, sadness, fear, piety opinion or down. That kind of art speaks a language that can be understood by the person who does the work or listen to. Nevertheless, it does not aim to be a work of art that the viewer actually sees the artist's personal expression it "tells".

Many so-called "modern art" (if we do so no movies, literature, pop music and other art forms accessible to many people to count) to the public is difficult to understand. That's because the newness and uncertainty of this time is represented in art, contemporary and traditional interpretation is very subjective

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Abstraction in art

Anyone who looks down from a plane, the air rushes through kilometers high, sees a colored pattern of the landscape: it is nothing like paintings with an instantly recognizable representation (for example a painting of a forest). The image is the unusual position of the spectator turned into an abstract pattern. Many modern artists (painters, sculptors, illustrators, photographers, weavers art, etc.) have used the abstract pattern. They have moved away from the traditional image of reality and find their motives in reality as they see in certain circumstances, or as they want them as a pretext for their own feelings to express. Abstract art is not easier than traditional realistic art. Good abstract works tend to be very carefully considered and composed, and many famous abstract painters have worked for years to nature, before they ventured to abstractions.

In Australia the Aborigines for thousands of years creating abstract art. But abstract art in the Western art arises only at the beginning of the 20th century. Major artists such as Cézanne, Picasso and Kandinsky have contributed to the abstraction in painting. The main Dutch abstract artist Piet Mondrian.

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Magical Realism

The abstract art are numerous directions. Some artists work using a method, which we half abstract or abstracted might call. In an abstract painting, people, trees, faces and objects still recognizable, but they are in any way distorted or out of context (magic realism). That abstract art was created at this very time, is not so strange. Artists tend to respond to the character and spirit of a certain time. Ours is a time of transition, old ideas tumble over and established beliefs are a variety of reasons being shaken and that everything is in some way reflected in various modern forms of art, in painting as well as in the work of modern sculptors and The compositions of contemporary composers and songwriters. And even applied arts (such as the design and implementation of furniture and appliances) can not be entirely to the influence of the abstract art of extracting and supplying finish, which is often very different from the traditional.

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Applied art

Modern applied arts (architecture, interior design, industrial design, photography, graphic design and fashion design) is now by many factors. Performers who have deal with these art forms, for example, pay special attention to the usability of their products. They strive for an example, a very nice chair - but at the same time ensuring that the seat is extremely easy and that their usefulness is not sacrificed for beauty. Furthermore take into account many discoveries of modern science. For example, they know that blue color most people a feeling of coldness and red and yellow colors indicate a feeling of warmth, they are able to improve conditions for all kinds of color combinations to design.

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