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The sentence is:

> 芸術は思いをかたちにする **もの**

What does this mean? Does it mean "Art is about giving form to
thoughts/feeling", "Art is the thing that gives thoughts/feeling form.

I am unsure of what もの means in this context.
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meaning relative-clauses
Meaning of もの in this sentence
Yes, your translation is spot-on. This もの is just "thing" and it refers to an
abstract concept here.

Grammatically, 思いをかたちにする (literally "to turn thoughts/ideas into a form") is
modifying もの as a relative clause. This is an example of [gap-less relative
clause](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/14550/5010) if I'm not mistaken.
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