art vs modality

art

noun
  • The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium. 

  • The study and the product of these processes. 

  • Aesthetic value. 

  • The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc. 

  • A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts. 

  • A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature. 

  • Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation. 

  • Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus. 

  • Artwork. 

modality

noun
  • Any of the senses (such as sight or taste) 

  • The way in which infrastructure and knowledge of how to use it give rise to a meaningful pattern of interaction (a concept in Anthony Giddens's structuration theory). 

  • The organization and structure of the church, as distinct from sodality or parachurch organizations. 

  • The subject concerning certain diatonic scales known as musical modes. 

  • The quality of being limited by a condition. 

  • A particular way in which the information is to be encoded for presentation to humans, i.e. to the type of sign and to the status of reality ascribed to or claimed by a sign, text or genre. 

  • The classification of propositions on the basis on whether they claim possibility, impossibility, contingency or necessity; mode. 

  • The inflection of a verb that shows how its action is conceived by the speaker; mood 

  • The fact of being modal. 

  • A method of diagnosis or therapy. 

How often have the words art and modality occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )