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What's The Definition Of Art?
[n] 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"
[n] the products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art" [n] a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art" [n] photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication; "the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book" Synonyms | Synonyms for Art: artistic creation | artistic production | artistry | artwork | fine art | graphics | nontextual matter | prowess Related Terms | Find terms related to Art: abstract expressionism | abstractionism | academic discipline | academic specialty | action painting | acuteness | address | adroitness | alphabet | American | applied science | area | arena | Art Nouveau | art schools | artful dodge | artfulness | artifice | artistic skill | artistry | arty-craftiness | Ashcan school | astuteness | Barbizon | baroque | Bauhaus | blind | blueprint | Bolognese | British | business | cageyness | callidity | calling | canniness | capability | career | career building | careerism | charactering | characterization | chart | chicanery | choreography | classicalism | classicism | cleverness | cloisonnism | Cobra | competence | conceptual art | concern | conspiracy | constructivism | contrivance | conventional representation | conventionalism | coup | craft | craftiness | cubism | cunning | cunningness | cute trick | Dadaism | dance notation | deceit | delineation | demonstration | department of knowledge | depiction | depictment | design | device | dexterity | diagram | discipline | dodge | domain | drama | drawing | Dutch | earth art | eclectic | elementarism | exemplification | existentialism | expedient | expertise | expressionism | fakement | Fauvism | feel | feint | fetch | field | field of inquiry | field of study | figuration | fine Italian hand | finesse | flair | Flemish | Fontainebleau | foxiness | free abstraction | French | futurism | gambit | game | gamesmanship | gimmick | Gothicism | grift | groups | guile | hallucinatory painting | handicraft | handiness | hang | hieroglyphic | iconography | idealism | ideogram | illustration | imagery | imaging | impressionism | ingeniousness | insidiousness | intimism | intrigue | intuitionism | inventiveness | Italian | Italian hand | jugglery | kinetic art | knack | knavery | know-how | letter | lifework | limning | line | line of business | line of work | linear chromatism | little game | logogram | logograph | maneuver | Mannerist | map | matter painting | mechanics | mechanism | method | metier | Milanese | minimal art | mission | Modenese | modernism | Momentum | move | musical notation | mystery | mysticism | natural science | naturalism | Neapolitan | neoclassicism | neoconcrete art | neoconstructivism | New York | nonobjectivism | notation | nuagism | number | occupation | ology | one-upmanship | op art | Paduan | Parisian | Phases | photomontage | pictogram | picturization | plan | plein-air | plot | ploy | poetic realism | poetic tachism | pointillism | portraiture | portrayal | postexpressionism | practice | prefigurement | preimpressionism | Pre-Raphaelite | presentment | primitivism | printing | profession | proficiency | projection | province | pure science | purism | pursuit | quietistic painting | racket | Raphaelite | readiness | realism | realization | red herring | Reflex | rendering | rendition | representation | representationalism | representationism | resourcefulness | Restany | Roman | romanticism | ruse | satanic cunning | savvy | schema | scheme | science | score | Scottish | script | sharpness | shift | shiftiness | shrewdness | Sienese | skill | sleight | slipperiness | slyness | sneakiness | social science | sophistry | specialization | specialty | sphere | Spur | stealth | stealthiness | stratagem | strategy | study | subterfuge | subtilty | subtleness | subtlety | suppleness | Suprematism | surrealism | syllabary | symbol | symbolism | synchromism | synthesism | tablature | tachism | tactic | talent | technic | technical know-how | technical knowledge | technical skill | technicology | technics | technique | technology | The Ten | touch | trade | traditionalism | trick | trickery | trickiness | Tuscan | Umbrian | unism | Venetian | virtu | vocation | vorticism | walk | walk of life | wariness | Washington | way | wile | wiles | wiliness | wily device | wit | work | writing See Also | airmanship | artificial flower | aviation | carving | ceramics | commercial art | creation | creation | creative activity | cyberart | dance | decal | decalcomania | decoupage | decoupage | diptych | drafting | draftsmanship | drawing | drawing | enology | falconry | fortification | gem | genre | glyptography | graphic art | grotesque | homiletics | horology | illustration | kitsch | minstrelsy | mosaic | music | musicianship | oenology | origami | painting | perfumery | plastic art | printmaking | publication | puppetry | sculpture | superior skill | taxidermy | topiary | treasure | triptych | ventriloquism | ventriloquy | visual communication | work of art Art In Webster's Dictionary \Art\ ([aum]rt).
The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense,
of the substantive verb {Be}; but formed after the analogy of
the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt,
orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. {Be}.
Now used only in solemn or poetical style.
\Art\ ([aum]rt), n. [F. art, L. ars, artis, orig., skill in joining or fitting; prob. akin to E. arm, aristocrat, article.] 1. The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes. Blest with each grace of nature and of art. --Pope. 2. A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; -- often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation. Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is knowledge made efficient by skill. --J. F. Genung. 3. The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or business requiring such knowledge or skill. The fishermen can't employ their art with so much success in so troubled a sea. --Addison. 4. The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature. 5. pl. Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts. In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts. --Pope. Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation. --Goldsmith. 6. Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters. [Archaic] So vast is art, so narrow human wit. --Pope. 7. Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage. 8. Skillful plan; device. They employed every art to soothe . . . the discontented warriors. --Macaulay. 9. Cunning; artifice; craft. Madam, I swear I use no art at all. --Shak. Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength. --Crabb. 10. The black art; magic. [Obs.] --Shak. {Art and part} (Scots Law), share or concern by aiding and abetting a criminal in the perpetration of a crime, whether by advice or by assistance in the execution; complicity. Note: The arts are divided into various classes. {The useful, mechanical, or industrial arts} are those in which the hands and body are more concerned than the mind; as in making clothes and utensils. These are called trades. {The fine arts} are those which have primarily to do with imagination and taste, and are applied to the production of what is beautiful. They include poetry, music, painting, engraving, sculpture, and architecture; but the term is often confined to painting, sculpture, and architecture. {The liberal arts} (artes liberales, the higher arts, which, among the Romans, only freemen were permitted to pursue) were, in the Middle Ages, these seven branches of learning, -- grammar, logic, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy. In modern times the liberal arts include the sciences, philosophy, history, etc., which compose the course of academical or collegiate education. Hence, degrees in the arts; master and bachelor of arts. In America, literature and the elegant arts must grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily necessity. --Irving. Syn: Science; literature; aptitude; readiness; skill; dexterity; adroitness; contrivance; profession; business; trade; calling; cunning; artifice; duplicity. See {Science}. |
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