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  2. Art for art's sake - Wikipedia

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    Art for art's sake. Art for art's sake —the usual English rendering of l'art pour l'art ( pronounced [laʁ puʁ laʁ] ), a French slogan from the latter half of the 19th century—is a phrase that expresses the philosophy that 'true' art is utterly independent of any and all social values and utilitarian function, be that didactic, moral, or ...

  3. Arti et Amicitiae - Wikipedia

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    Arti et Amicitiae. /  52.3689250°N 4.8915917°E  / 52.3689250; 4.8915917. Arti et Amicitiae (lat .: For Art and Friendship) is a Dutch artist's society founded in 1839, and located on the Rokin in Amsterdam. The Society (also called Arti for short) has played a key role in the Netherlands art scene and in particular in the Amsterdam art ...

  4. Spin-off (media) - Wikipedia

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    Description. A spin-off [3] (also spelt spinoff [4]) is derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work (e.g. particular topics, characters or events), and includes books, radio programs, television programs, films, video games, or any narrative work in any medium.

  5. Art - Wikipedia

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    Within this latter sense, the word art may refer to several things: (i) a study of a creative skill, (ii) a process of using the creative skill, (iii) a product of the creative skill, or (iv) the audience's experience with the creative skill.

  6. Substantial form - Wikipedia

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    Substantial form is a central philosophical concept in Aristotelianism and, afterwards, in Scholasticism. The form is the idea, existent or embodied in a being, that completes or actualizes the potentiality latent in the matter composing the being itself. For Aristotle, in fact, matter is the basis of all that exists; it comprises the ...

  7. Arti (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

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    Arti. (Hinduism) Arti ( Hindi: आरती, romanized : Ārtī) or Arati ( Sanskrit: आरति, romanized : Ārati) [1] [2] is a Hindu ritual employed in worship, part of a puja, in which light from a flame (fuelled by camphor, ghee, or oil) is ritually waved to venerate deities. [3] [4] [5] Arti also refers to the songs sung in praise of ...

  8. Data augmentation - Wikipedia

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    Data augmentation is a statistical technique which allows maximum likelihood estimation from incomplete data. Data augmentation has important applications in Bayesian analysis, and the technique is widely used in machine learning to reduce overfitting when training machine learning models, achieved by training models on several slightly-modified copies of existing data.

  9. Albanian art - Wikipedia

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    Albanian art. Tirana is one of the centers of art in Albania. Albanian art ( Albanian: arti shqiptar [aɾˈti ʃcipˈtaɾ]) refers to all artistic expressions and artworks in Albania or produced by Albanians. The country's art is either work of arts produced by its people and influenced by its culture and traditions.