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Art Fund sponsors the Museum of the Year award (known as the Gulbenkian Prize from 2003 to 2007 and the Art Fund Prize from 2008 to 2012). This is a £100,000 prize awarded annually to the museum or gallery that had the most imaginative, innovative or popular project during the previous year.
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.
Spikenard. Spikenard, also called nard, nardin, and muskroot, is a class of aromatic amber-colored essential oil derived from Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant in the honeysuckle family which grows in the Himalayas of Nepal, China, and India. The oil has been used over centuries as a perfume, a traditional medicine, or in religious ...
Tapenade. Tapenade ( French pronunciation: [tapəˈnad]; Occitan: tapenada [tapeˈnadɔ]) is a Provençal [1] name for a spread, condiment and culinary ingredient consisting of puréed or finely chopped olives, capers, and sometimes anchovies. [2] The name comes from the Provençal word for capers, tapenas ( pronounced [taˈpenɔs] ).
History of art. The history of art focuses on objects made by humans for any number of spiritual, narrative, philosophical, symbolic, conceptual, documentary, decorative, and even functional and other purposes, but with a primary emphasis on its aesthetic visual form.
Bust (sculpture) A bust is a sculpted or cast representation of the upper part of the human body, depicting a person's head and neck, and a variable portion of the chest and shoulders. The piece is normally supported by a plinth. The bust is generally a portrait intended to record the appearance of an individual, but may sometimes represent a type.
Batik [b] is an Indonesian technique of wax-resist dyeing applied to the whole cloth. [1] [4] [2] [5] [6] This technique originated from the island of Java, Indonesia. [3] Batik is made either by drawing dots and lines of wax with a spouted tool called a canting, [c] or by printing the wax with a copper stamp called a cap.
Rudraksha is a Sanskrit compound word consisting of "Rudra"(Sanskrit: रुद्र) referring to Shiva and "akṣa "(Sanskrit: अक्ष) meaning "eye". [6] [a] [7] Sanskrit dictionaries translate akṣa ( Sanskrit : अक्ष ) as eyes, [8] as do many prominent Hindus such as Sivaya Subramuniyaswami and Kamal Narayan Seetha ...