ART
WordNet
noun
(1) The creation of beautiful or significant things
"Art does not need to be innovative to be good"
"I was never any good at art"
"He said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
(2) The products of human creativity; works of art collectively
"An art exhibition"
"A fine collection of art"
(3) A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation
"The art of conversation"
"It's quite an art"
(4) Photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication
"The publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book"
WiktionaryText
Etymology 1
art from art from artem, accusative of ars "art". Displaced native liste "art" (from list).
Noun
- Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
- The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
- There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
- Activity intended to make something special.
- A re-creation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value judgements.
- The study and the product of these processes.
- Aesthetic value.
- Artwork.
- A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
- Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 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, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 217:
Quotations
- 2005: "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror." -July Harper's, Lynn Freed
Etymology 2
From , second singular of , from .
Verb
art