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The only inventory category where emotion counts as a line item.
means The visual pieces — paintings, illustrations, graphics, or design — created for a project, collection, or sale.
from A straightforward compound of 'art' and 'work,' both old words in English — 'art' from Latin 'ars' (skill, craft), 'work' from a Germanic root meaning labor or something made. Together they simply name the made thing that skill produced. The word hardened into its modern printing/publishing sense — the images prepared for reproduction — in the 20th century, as the industry needed a plain term for the visual material that wasn't text.
- legal status
- Can be owned, copied, and copyrighted separately from object
- insurance quirk
- Banksy shredded itself and gained value instantly
- museum trick
- Wall labels are technically not part of the artwork
- oldest known
- Cave paintings predate writing by 30,000 years