Word Finder - art

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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.

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There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.

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The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.

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Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.

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She's mastered the art of programming.

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The study and the product of these processes.

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He's at university to study art.

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Aesthetic value.

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Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.

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Artwork.

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Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.

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A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.

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I'm a great supporter of the arts.

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A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.

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Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.

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Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.

Last week I visited a beautiful art store.

Yes, we are a long line of art lovers.

It helps that they are all art majors.

From now on she'd have a lot more respect for the art of romancing.

The cover advertised art lessons for anyone drawing cartoon pictures and seeking "A rewarding career."

He didn't need any tips on the art of romancing.

I'm well practiced in this art as I've done so many times before!

Then Harold added, There used to be an Art Dawkins in Montrose.

The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

It is the art of being stronger than the enemy at a given moment.

These guys have state of the art equipment.

It is the work of art nearest to life itself.

The art collections of Stuttgart are numerous and valuable.

I wouldn't own an art gallery if I didn't love artists.

The chunky blocks of the stone walls were decorated with art done by children, and colorful mats covered the floor.

He'd never seen art of this kind, only the statues of his father's court and the multi-hued strands used to decorate homes.

She made her living selling her art and guest lecturing at colleges.

Look then at thy inner self with the eyes of the spirit, and ask thyself whether thou art content with thyself.

We thought we had him this time but he has receipts and papers from Chicago where he claims he attended a weekend art shindig.

Of course, I have no sense whatever of dramatic action, and could make only random guesses; but with masterful art he suited the action to the word.

Even more than Buddhism Islam has carried with it a special style of art and civilization.

An extraordinary perfection was at this time attained in many branches of art, notably in the painted pottery, often with polychrome decoration, of a class known as " Kamares " from its first discovery in a cave of that name on' Mount Ida.

This gives access to a whole series of halls and private rooms (halls " of the Colonnades," " of the Double Axes," " Queen's Megaron" with bath-room attached and remains of the fish fresco, " Treasury " with ivory figures and other objects of art), together with extensive remains of an upper storey.

Both the signet types and the other objects of art here discovered display the fresh naturalism that characterizes in a special way the first Late Minoan period.

The most important addition to the educational and artistic life of the community was the Museum of Art, located in Wade park.

Where Chinese influence had full play it introduced Confucianism, a special style in art and the Chinese system of writing.

Much of this art is Greek in origin, being derived from the Perso-Greek states on the north-west frontiers.

His liberalism in politics having brought him into conflict with the university authorities of Giessen, he exchanged that university for Göttingen in 1816, and three years later received a chair at the new university of Bonn, where he established the art museum and the library, of which he became the first librarian.

Bishop Memorial Training School for nurses, the Berkshire Home for aged women, the Berkshire Athenaeum, containing the public library, the Crane Art Museum and a Young Men's Christian Association.

He took great interest in music and painting, and added to the collection of art treasures at Dresden.

While using the same language as the Babylonians, the Assyrians had an individuality which showed itself in art and religion.

Bactria soon became independent under an IndoGreek dynasty, and the blending of Greek, Persian, central Asiatic and Hindu influences had an important effect on the art and religion of India, and through India on all eastern Asia.

The Persian variety of this art is more ornate, and less averse to representations of living beings.

Alexander's conquests resulted in the foundation of a Perso-Greek kingdoms in Asia, which not only hellenized their own area but influenced the art and religion of India and to some extent of China.

Aberdeen was a distinguished scholar with a retentive memory and a wide knowledge of literature and art.

Arles still possesses many monuments of Roman architecture and art, the most remarkable being the ruins of an amphitheatre (the Arenes), capable of containing 25,000 spectators, which, in the 11th and 12th centuries, was flanked with massive towers, of which three are still standing.

His writings show a deep love of nature, art and humanity, and are marked by vigour of thought, sincerity of feeling, and grace and finish of style.

They are rigid non-resistants, and will not bear arms or study the art of war; they refuse to take oaths, and discountenance going to law over issues that can possibly be settled out of the courts.

Nor have they been distinguished in industrial art.

Its theft is a frequent subject in Greek art, especially of the earlier time.

The next writer of note is John Mortimer, whose Whole Art of Husbandry, a regular, systematic work of considerable merit, was published in 1707.

A relation between objects of art described by Homer and the Mycenaean treasure was generally allowed, and a correct opinion prevailed that, while certainly posterior, the civilization of the Iliad was reminiscent of the Mycenaean.

But the chief glory of her declining years was undoubtedly her splendid art.

His editions and biography of Zoega, his Zeitschrift fiir Geschichte and Auslegung der alten Kunst (Göttingen, 1817, 8) and his Alte Denkmdler (5 vols., 1849-1864) contain his views on ancient art.

The evocation of spirits, especially in the form of necromancy, is an important branch of the demonology of many peoples; and the peculiarities of trance mediumship, which seem sufficiently established by modern research, go far to explain the vogue of this art.

The Museum of Fine Arts was founded in 1870 (though there were art exhibits collected from 1826 onward) and its present building was erected in 1908.

There is an art department of the city government, under unpaid commissioners, appointed by the mayor from candidates named by local art and literary institutions; and without their approval no work of art can now become the property of the city.

Cathbu (Cathbad), the Druid connected with Conchobar, king of Ulster, in the older cycle is accompanied by a number of youths (Ioo according to the oldest version) who are desirous of learning his art, though what this consisted in we are not told.

The development of the art of war, and the growth of a systematic taxation, are two debts which medieval Europe also owed to the Crusades.

The influence exercised at all times on Syrian art by the powerful neighbouring states is abundantly confirmed by all the recent finds which, in addition to our previous knowledge, show the action of the Aegean culture on Phoenicia and Palestine.