art has definitions from the field of fine art
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[ noun ] (fine art) the products of human creativity; works of art collectively

Synonyms

fine_art

Examples

"an art exhibition" "a fine collection of art"

Used in print

(Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)

It is only fair to demand that teachers of courses in English , history , psychology and_so_on be as well informed in matters of art , especially interior_design , as are the art_teachers educated in the academic subjects .

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

Folklore is individually created art that a homogeneous group of people preserve , vary and recreate through oral transmission .

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

Despite the sheer beauty and spectacle of numerous documentaries , art films , and travelogues , despite the impressive financial success of such a recent development as Cinerama , the movies are at_heart a form of fiction , like the play , the novel , or the short_story .

There still remained the need for one great film artist to explore the full potential of the new form and to make it an art .

Before he was forty Griffith had created the art of the film .

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[ noun ] (fine art) the creation of beautiful or significant things

Examples

"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"

Used in print

(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

About that same time John_Crosby 's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing_space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do .

(Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)

The proper correlation of the art with the academic can be achieved only_if this standard is observed .

The matter of sympathy of the academic professors for art objectives also must be taken_into_account .

Indeed , it has only been a matter of the last few years that reputable schools of art have granted degrees at_all .

There will be no mitigation of these offences until all art_schools , whether independent or attached to universities have separate accreditation - as do medical_schools - by an art accreditation group such_as the `` National_Association_of_Schools_of_Art '' .

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[ noun ] a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation

Examples

"the art of conversation" "it's quite an art"

Used in print

(Edward P. Lawton, "Northern Liberals and Southern...)

The South 's antipathy to Northern civilization includes such charges as poor manners , harsh accents , lack of appreciation of the arts of living like gastronomy and the use of leisure .

(Howard Nemerov, "Themes and Methods: The Early...)

But it is characteristic of him , we are told , `` his little artifice '' , to be able to introduce `` into a fairly vulgar and humorous piece of hackwork a sudden phrase of genuine creative art '' .

The horrifying humor , the specifically sexual embarrassment of the joke gone_wrong , the monstrous image of the fat man dressed_up as a whore dressing_up as a baby ; the epiphany of that quivering flesh ; the bringing_together around it of the secret liaison between indolent , mindless sensuality and sharp , shrewd talent , cleverness with an occasional touch of genius ( which , however , does not know `` how to attack the problem of suffering '' ) ; the miraculous way in which music , revelation and death are associated in a single instant - all this seems a triumph of art , a rather desperate art , in itself ; beyond itself , also , it evokes numerous and distant resonances from the entire body of Mann 's work .

The horrifying humor , the specifically sexual embarrassment of the joke gone_wrong , the monstrous image of the fat man dressed_up as a whore dressing_up as a baby ; the epiphany of that quivering flesh ; the bringing_together around it of the secret liaison between indolent , mindless sensuality and sharp , shrewd talent , cleverness with an occasional touch of genius ( which , however , does not know `` how to attack the problem of suffering '' ) ; the miraculous way in which music , revelation and death are associated in a single instant - all this seems a triumph of art , a rather desperate art , in itself ; beyond itself , also , it evokes numerous and distant resonances from the entire body of Mann 's work .

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[ noun ] photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication

Examples

"the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book"

Used in print

(Edward Austin Walton, "On Education for the Interior...)

At the end of its letter was the information that applicants for this position `` must also be prepared to teach costume design and advertising art '' .

(Frank Getlein and Harold C. Gardiner, S.J., Movies,...)

In all_of this extensive and expensive effort , the camera was downgraded to the status of recording instrument for art_work produced elsewhere by the actor or by the author .

(Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)

Quasimodo defines his own art as `` the search for what is not there '' .

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[ noun ] Man's first name, popularity rank in the U.S. is 710
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