EE Talking point — arts
The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest, by the Flemish Baroque painter Willem van Haecht (1593–1637). Rubenshuis, Antwerp, Belgium.
Arts — "art", from the Latin arti-, ars, professional, artistic, or technical skill, craftsmanship / from the same Indo-European base as ancient Greek ἀραρίσκω to join together, fasten, fit together, construct, prepare, contrive: "Art originally shared many of its meanings with craft . . . however, by the 17th cent. the association of art with creative or imaginative skill . . . rather than technical ability tended to result in less semantic overlap between the two words. . . . art is often contrasted with science . . . with art now frequently understood . . . as an ability to adopt a creative or flexible approach, in contrast to the application of more theoretical or scientific principles. From the Middle Ages art has often been contrasted with nature . . . ." (OED, 2nd edition. Oxford: 1989).
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