see also: Art, ART
Pronunciation Noun
art
- (uncountable) 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.
- 1992 May 3, "Comrade Bingo" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
- B.W. Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world.
R. Jeeves: An interesting theory, sir. Would you care to expatiate upon it?
B.W. Wooster: As a matter of fact, no, Jeeves. The thought just occurred to me, as thoughts do.
R. Jeeves: Very good, sir.
- B.W. Wooster: If you ask me, art is responsible for most of the trouble in the world.
- 2005 July, Lynn Freed, Harper's:
- "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror."
- 2009, Alexander Brouwer:
- Visual art is a subjective understanding or perception of the viewer as well as a deliberate/conscious arrangement or creation of elements like colours, forms, movements, sounds, objects or other elements that produce a graphic or plastic whole that expresses thoughts, ideas or visions of the artist.
- There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
- 1992 May 3, "Comrade Bingo" Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
- (uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
- (countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
- She's mastered the art of programming.
- (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
- He's at university to study art.
- (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
- Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
- (uncountable) Artwork.
- Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
- (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- I'm a great supporter of the arts.
- (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
- (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis (writer), The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page 217:
- A physician was immediately sent for; but on the first moment of beholding the corpse, he declared that Elvira's recovery was beyond the power of art.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis (writer), The Monk, Folio Society 1985, page 217:
- (uncountable, dated) Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
- (Human effort) craft
- (Human effort) mundacity, nature, subsistence
- German: Kunstwerk
- Italian: arte, produzione artistica
- Portuguese: obra de arte
- Russian: иску́сство
- Spanish: arte
- Italian: disciplina umanistica
- Portuguese: arte
- Russian: иску́сство
- Italian: disciplina umanistica
- Portuguese: humana
- Russian: иску́сство
- (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of be
- How great thou art!
Art
Proper noun
- A male given name.
ART
Noun
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