Another approach is to say that “ art ” is basically a sociological category, that whatever art schools and museums and artists define as art is considered art regardless of formal definitions.

Being a form of visual art, it might also be said that many graffiti artists still fall in the category of the introverted archetypal artist.

By the early 1960s, the music industry category previously known as rhythm and blues was being called soul music, and similar music by white artists was labeled blue eyed soul.

Also in the category of Spanish pop art is the " Chronicle Team " ( El Equipo Crónica ), which existed in Valencia between 1964 and 1981, formed by the artists Manolo Valdés and Rafael Solbes.

Because the area is a haven for artists, the festival honors them with a special " artist category ", in addition to the documentary, feature and short film categories.

The artists that fall under the banner of technopop in Japan are as loose as those that do so in the West, thus new wave bands such as P-Model and The Plastics fall under the category alongside the symphonic techno arrangements of Yellow Magic Orchestra.

Latifah is one of three hip-hop artists to receive an Academy Award nomination in an acting category ( Best Supporting Actress, Chicago, 2002 ).

Islamic countries have developed modern and contemporary art, with very vigorous art worlds in some countries, but the degree to which these should be grouped in a special category as " Islamic art " is questionable, although many artists deal with Islam-related themes, and use traditional elements such as calligraphy.

Of the 48 awards presented in the category since its inception, the honor has been presented to 24 solo female artists, 15 duos or groups, and 11 solo male artists.

According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented to artists for " for newly recorded hard, hard rock or metal instrumental performances ".

The competition had one winner only, but the entries in the " Young artists " category had to go through an elimination round, while " Big artists " were directly admitted to the final.

The category Classic was abolished in 2006, while starting from 2007 the festival came back to the rules used in the 1990s, with two completely separated competitions for established artists and newcomers.

According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award was presented to artists that performed " newly recorded solo R & B vocal performances ".

From 2001, however, the prize is only given in one category, and is especially meant for beginning artists that deserve more recognition.

Shortly after, VH1 created a companion series, Legends ( originally sponsored by AT & T ), profiling artists who have made a more significant contribution to music history to qualify as " Legends " ( that is, those artists who have gone beyond the category of Behind the Music biographies ).

As a term, neo soul was coined by Kedar Massenburg of Motown Records in the late 1990s as a marketing category following the commercial breakthroughs of artists such as D ' Angelo, Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, and Maxwell.

Given the way black music has been named by ( usually ) outsiders ever since the blues, the reaction to the name by artists who ostensibly fit into the ' neo-soul ' category represents a wonderful example of black self-determination in an industry that is still defiantly wedded to narrow definitions and images of black folks ".

Songs written by Finnish artists whose lyrics are written in English are divided into a category of its own.

The term is also a problematic category due to the considerable differences between the artists so labelled.

Even though the EP was hardly a high sales category, Virgin signed Paradinas to a hefty contract and gave him his own sublabel, Planet Mu, to release his own work and develop similar-minded artists.

For example, when the careful, even tedious, art techniques of French neo-classicism became oppressive to artists living in more exuberant times, a stylistic revolution known as " Impressionism " vitalized brush strokes and color.

Fine arts artists such as painters succeeded in the Renaissance in raising their status, formerly similar to these workers, to a decisively higher level, but in the 20th century the distinction became rather less relevant.

Bosschaert became one of the first artists to specialise in still life, and in doing so he started a tradition of painting detailed flower bouquets, which typically consisted of tulips, roses and an exotic species.

During the 1980s and 1990s, she became one of the first CCM artists to cross over into mainstream pop on the heels of her successful albums Unguarded and Heart in Motion, the latter of which included the No. 1 single " Baby Baby ".

Water-soluble artists ' acrylic paints became commercially available in the 1950s, offered by Liquitex, with high-viscosity paints similar to those made today becoming available in the early 1960s.

It was largely due to the popularity of artists such as Blind Lemon Jefferson and contemporaries such as Blind Blake and Ma Rainey that Paramount became the leading recording company for the blues in the 1920s.

The " minicomics " form, an extremely informal version of self-publishing, arose in the 1980s and became increasingly popular among artists in the 1990s, despite reaching an even more limited audience than the small press.

In the late 1940s Alston became involved in a mural project commissioned by Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company which asked the artists to create work involving African American contributions to the settling of California.

In 1859, while attending the free school, the Académie Suisse, Pissarro became friends with a number of younger artists who likewise chose to paint in the more realistic style.

But within a short time, Joe Shuster and his ghost artists began depicting Clark Kent ripping open his shirt to reveal the " S " insignia on his chest — an image which became so iconic that other superheroes, during the Golden Age and later periods, would copy the same type of change during transformations.

A few artists still managed to score disco hits in the early 1980s, but the term " disco " became unfashionable in the new decade and was eventually replaced by " dance music ", " dance pop ", and other identifiers.

The rich orchestral accompaniment that became identified with the disco era conjured up the memories of the big band era — which brought out several artists that recorded and disco-ized some big band arrangements including Perry Como, who re-recorded his 1929 and 1939 hit, " Temptation ", in 1975, as well as Ethel Merman, who released an album of disco songs entitled The Ethel Merman Disco Album in 1979.

When paper became generally available, from the 14th century onwards, artists ' drawings, both preparatory studies and finished works, became increasingly common.

The group of writers, musicians and artists became known as " The Kardomah Gang ".

Beginning during the second half of the 19th century the town became home to numerous artists.

Whatever Jones and The Monkees were meant to be, they became creative artists in their own right, and Jones's chipper Brit-pop presence was a big reason they were able to produce work that was commercial, wholesome and yet impressively weird.

The song " Boadicea ", also from this album, would later be sampled by The Fugees on their single " Ready or Not " ( 1996 ), causing a brief stir because the group neither sought permission from Enya nor gave her credit initially, and by Mario Winans, who did give her credit ( the Winans track, " I Don't Wanna Know " which features a rap by P. Diddy and is officially credited to all three artists, became Enya's highest charting single in the US, when it peaked at # 2 on the Hot 100 in 2004 ).

California's large Latino community enjoyed the sounds of the East Coast Latin club scene, and a number of California artists became popular among freestyle fans on the East Coast.

However, the overdriven sound of the Hammond gained a new image when it became part of 1960s and 1970s rock with artists like Alan Price, Gregg Allman, Steve Winwood, Rick Wright, Keith Emerson, Jon Lord, Matthew Fisher, Rick Wakeman, Tony Banks and Jack McDuff.

The two young artists quickly became close friends, and Chang introduced Hergé to Chinese culture and the techniques of Chinese art.

Critic and humorist Louis Leroy wrote a scathing review in the newspaper Le Charivari in which, making wordplay with the title of Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise ( Impression, soleil levant ), he gave the artists the name by which they became known.

As the influence of Impressionism spread beyond France, artists, too numerous to list, became identified as practitioners of the new style.

By the 1970s, because of the advent of psychedelic art, artists became used to brighter pigments, and pigments called " bright indigo " or " brite blue-violet " that are the pigment equivalent of the electric indigo reproduced in the section above became available in artists ' pigments and colored pencils.