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Art

Any visual, creative material. Examples of art include drawings, videos and computer graphics. Art may be bought and sold as an asset (indeed, famous art such as the Mona Lisa is worth many millions of dollars), but it is also used in marketing to help a product appeal to buyers.

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There's more than a hint of self-gratification and affected artfulness in Rotheroe's approach that dulls the emotional impact of the material, giving it a somewhat artificial feel.

MY BROTHER TOM

Amano's attempt to fuse past, present, and future is at its most explicit here, and despite the project's self-conscious artfulness, the results are surprisingly fresh.

Yoshitaka Amano. (Reviews: New York)

Such is the artfulness of his and Taymor's work that the bird's transformation into human form in the end almost comes as a disappointment.

THE GREEN BIRD

The other was Showtime's politically charged thriller examining the Clarence Thomas-Supreme Court fiasco with both savvy insight and artfulness.

`SOPRANOS' HITS HIGHEST NOTE

But unlike those films, or previous, high-concept serial-murder comedies like Man Bites Dog, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and Serial Mom, which have a quasi-immature dastardliness that offsets their deconstructible artfulness, American Psycho is grown-up to the max.

MORE THAN ZERO

The artfulness of his work is almost undone by the author's apparent need to make art imitate life.

SPREAD EAGLE

There's lots of hungry lovemaking and unnecessary cruelty tossed about here, some of it with an artfulness that will make you weep.

BEAUTY, PLEASURE AND PAIN MIX IN `TEMPTRESS MOON'

More than any of Irvine's earlier work, this orchestral installation pitted the seductive comforts of artfulness and artifice against an implied desire for true revelation and exposure.

JAKI IRVINE

While a sweeping, multilevel story is well organized here, there's little artfulness in the execution.

In Our Own Hands

But movie technology dims that genius, ironically, by calling attention to its very artfulness.

THE VALUE OF AN `AMERICAN BUFFALO'

Furthermore, Levin's from-the-hip style, which could scarcely be more different from the deliberate artfulness of Aronofsky's, comes across like a dispatch from the front, especially in the intense prison scenes, some of which used real inmates.

Dynamic duo make mark of excellence

This strategy could be confining, but The American Chestnut, a series of loosely linked monologues, was staged with a steady ingenuity that put the lie to those who deny her work's artfulness.

Karen Finley

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