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Art is the expression of creativity or imagination. The word art comes from the Latin word ars, artis, which means "skill/craft/art; trick| wile; science| knowledge; method| way; character (pl.)." Art is commonly understood as the act of making works (or artworks) which use the human creative impulse and which have meaning beyond simple description. While art is often distinguished from crafts and recreational hobby activities, this boundary can at times be hard to define. The term creative arts denotes a collection of disciplines whose principal purpose is the output of material for the viewer or audience to interpret. As such, art may be taken to include forms ranging from literary forms (prose writing and poetry); performance-based forms (dance, acting, drama, and music); visual and "plastic arts" (painting, sculpture, photography, illustration); to forms that also have a functional role, such as architecture and fashion design. Art may also be understood as relating to creativity, æsthetics and the generation of emotion.
Her Majesty's Theatre is a West End theatre, located in the Haymarket, in the City of Westminster. The present building was designed by Charles J. Phipps and was constructed in 1897 for actor-manager Herbert Beerbohm Tree, who established the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art at the theatre. In the early decades of the 20th century, Tree produced spectacular productions of Shakespeare and other classical works, and the theatre hosted premières by major playwrights such as George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Synge, Noel Coward and J. B. Priestley. Since World War I, the wide flat stage has made the theatre suitable for large-scale musical productions, and the theatre has specialised in hosting musicals. The theatre has been home to record-setting musical theatre runs, notably the World War I sensation Chu Chin Chow[1] and the current production, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, which has played continuously at Her Majesty's since 1986.
The theatre was established by architect and playwright John Vanbrugh, in 1705, as the Queen's Theatre. Legally, serious drama unaccompanied by music was forbidden in all but the two London patent theatres, and so this theatre quickly became an opera house. Between 1711 and 1739, more than 25 George Frederick Handel operas premièred here.[2] In the early 19th century, the theatre hosted the opera company that was to move to the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, in 1847, and presented the first London performances of Mozart's La clemenza di Tito, Così fan tutte and Don Giovanni.[3] It also hosted the Ballet of her Majesty's Theatre in the mid-19th century, before returning to hosting the London premières of such famous operas as Bizet's Carmen and Wagner's Ring Cycle.
The name of the theatre changes with the gender of the monarch. It first became the King's Theatre in 1714 on the accession of George I. Most recently, the theatre was known as His Majesty's Theatre from 1901 to 1952, and it became Her Majesty's on the accession of Elizabeth II. The theatre's capacity is 1,216 seats, and the building was Grade II* listed by English Heritage in January 1970. Really Useful Group Theatres has owned the theatre since 2000.
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Witold Lutosławski was one of the major European composers of the 20th century, and possibly the most significant Polish composer since Chopin. Lutosławski studied piano and composition in Warsaw, and during World War II he made a living in that city by playing the piano in bars. In the late 1940s and early 1950s his music was banned as formalist by the Stalinist authorities. In the last three decades of the century he became the pre-eminent musician of his country, and was presented with a large number of international honours, awards and prizes. Lutosławski's early compositions were overtly influenced by Polish folk music; from the late 1950s onwards he developed his own characteristically dense harmonies and innovative aleatory techniques. His works include four symphonies and a Concerto for Orchestra; he also composed concertos and song cycles for renowned musicians including Mstislav Rostropovich, Peter Pears, and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. He was also a notable conductor of his own music.
“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire”
R.W. Emerson
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF A 21st CENTURY ART AXIOLOGY FOR FINE PAINTING BY CHRONOLOGICAL METHOD 1.THE HISTORY OF AXIOLOGY IN FINE ART PAINTIING.2.THE PRESENT STATE AXIOLOGY FINE ART PAINTING.3.THE NEW IDEOLOGY OF 21st CENTURY FINE PAINTING AXIOLOGY. 1.IN OCCIDENTIAL PAINTING PAINT AXIOLOGY WAS FIRST DICTATORIAL AND WAS GIVEN VALUE BY THE RULERS AND PRIESTS.AS HISTORY PPROGRESSED THE CHURCH LEADERS DEFINED THE VALUE OF FINE PAINTING.AS THE RENAISSANCE PROGRESSED THE FINE ART PAINTER BEGAN TO GAIN STATUS AND WAS INVOLVED IN THS AXIOLOGY, THE FINE ART PAINTER WAS NOT SO MUCH CONCIDERED JUST A WORKMAN. THE NOBELS THE RICH AND CLERGY WERE STILL THE DICATORS OF THE AXIOLOGY OF FINE PAINTING .BY THE TIME OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT THE PHILOSOPHES(INTELLIGENTISA)BECAME INVOLOVED AND THE IDEA OF GEOMETRIC AESTHETICS WAS IN FULL VOGUE. ART THEN REVERTED BACK TO DICTATORIAL STATUS WITH THE RULES OF AESTHETICS, GEOMETRIC FORMULA, FASHION TASTE, AND ELITE DICTATION.ALL RULED BE THE PAINTER ELITE.DAVID.THEN TWO SCHOOLS DEVELOPED THE LINERIST AND COLORIST.STILL DICTATED BY THE RICH AND THE ELITE INTELLIGENCA. THE COLORIST SCHOOL WAS MORE LIBERAL IN ITS FORM.AND ATTRACTED MORE OUTCAST TYPES.THEN NOT SO SUPER RICH BECAME ABLE TO AFFORD PAINTINGS.BUT FINE PAINT WAS STILL DEFINED MOSTLY BY THE TRADITIONAL RULES OF ACADEMIC AESTHETICS AND TRADITIONAL TASTE AND FASHION.WITH THE ADVENT OF THE CAMERA THE COLORISY SCHOOL GAINED GROUND OVER THE MORE TRADITIONAL LINERIST SCHOOL.AND.IMPRESSIONISM WAS BORN.MAKING THE FIRST MAJOR LANDMARK BREAK WITH TRADITIONAL AXIOLOGY AS DICTATED BY HE ELITE.
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