art
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɑːt/
ipa: /ɑɹt/
rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
ipa: [ɑːʔ]
ipa: [äˑɹt]
ipa: [-ɻ-]
ipa: [ɑˑɻt]
ipa: [aːt]
ipa: [äːt]
ipa: [ɒːt]
ipa: [ɒət]
note: rhotic
ipa: [ɒɹt]
ipa: [ɑ̈ɹt]
ipa: [ɐɹt]
ipa: /ɐːt/
ipa: [äːt]
ipa: /ɑːt/
ipa: [ɑːtʰ]
ipa: [-tsʰ]
Forms: form: arts
Etymology: From Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin artem, accusative of ars (“art”). Partly displaced native Old English cræft, whence Modern English craft.
Senses: examples: text: There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
text: 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.
ref: 1992 May 3, “Comrade Bingo”, in Jeeves and Wooster, Series 3, Episode 6:
text: "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror."
ref: 2005 July, Lynn Freed, Harper's:
text: 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.
ref: 2009, Alexander Brouwer, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
glosses: 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.
glosses: The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
examples: text: She's mastered the art of programming.
glosses: Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
examples: text: He's at university to study art.
glosses: The study and the product of these processes.
examples: text: Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
glosses: Aesthetic value.
examples: text: Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
text: art collection
glosses: Artwork.
examples: text: I'm a great supporter of the arts.
glosses: A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
examples: text: Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. GDP measures the total value of output in an economic territory. Its apparent simplicity explains why it is scrutinised down to tenths of a percentage point every month.
ref: 2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
glosses: (often in dichotomy with science) A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology.
examples: text: 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.
ref: 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society, published 1985, page 217:
text: The relation of science to art may be summed up in a brief expression: From Science comes Prevision: from Prevision comes Action.
ref: 1855, Harriet Martineau's translation, The Positive Philosophy of Auguste Comte Vol. 1, Introduction, Ch. 2, page 21, from Auguste Comte, Cours de philosophie positive (1830–1842)
text: The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on a certain afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.
ref: 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter IV, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC, page 58:
text: Let's make sandwiches out of colored paper and teach people how to listen. Listening is a social art and we had best hang on to it. A tape recording stuck in your ear won't do.
ref: 1983 December 3, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 21:
glosses: Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
examples: text: it was not art,
Of wisdom and of justice when he spoke—
When ’mid soft looks of pity, there would dart
A glance as keen as is the lightning’s stroke
When it doth rive the knots of some ancestral oak.
ref: 1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 222:
text: [...] and Mrs. Earnshaw undertook to keep her sister-in-law in due restraint, when she returned home employing art, not force—with force she would have found it impossible.
ref: 1847 December, Ellis Bell [pseudonym; Emily Brontë], chapter VI, in Wuthering Heights: […], volume I, London: Thomas Cautley Newby, […], →OCLC, page 112:
glosses: Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
Synonyms: sense: Human effort
word: craft
Hyponyms: ABC art
abstract art
ANSI art
ASCII art
black art
black arts
blotter art
body art
cave art
clip art
concept art
copy art
fine arts
folk art
graphic art
high art
installation art
junk art
kinetic art
liberal arts
line art
martial art
minimal art
mobiliary art
modern art
naïve art
net art
op art
optical art
outsider art
performance art
pixel art
plastic art
pop art
portable art
primitive art
prior art
process art
retinal art
sand art
sequential art
seventh art
street art
third art
traditional art
vernacular art
visual art
Derived terms: word: 7th art
word: AADAOPA
word: academic art
word: allied arts
word: antiart
word: anti-art
word: anti-object art
word: applied arts
word: art and part
word: artboard
word: artbook
word: art class
word: art dealer
word: Art Deco
word: art director
word: artefact
word: art epic
word: arterati
word: Artex
word: art exhibition
word: artfag
word: artfest
word: art film
word: art for art's sake
word: art form
word: artfuck
word: artful
word: art gallery
word: art gallery problem
word: art game
word: art glass
word: artgoing
word: art gum
word: art handler
word: art historian
word: art-historical
word: art history
word: art hoe
word: arthood
word: art-house
word: art house
word: artifact
word: artifice
word: artificial
word: artificial art
word: art imitates life
word: artisan
word: artist
word: artiste
word: artistic
word: artistry
word: artivism
word: artivist
word: art journal
word: artless
word: artlike
word: art line
word: artly
word: artmaker
word: artmaking
word: artmobile
word: art movement
word: art movie
word: art music
word: art name
word: art nouveau
word: art object
word: art of the possible
word: art of war
word: artographer
word: artotype
word: art paper
word: artpaper
word: artpiece
word: art pop
word: artpreneur
word: art punk
word: art rock
word: art room
word: arts and crafts
word: arts and letters
word: art school
word: arts degree
word: artsome
word: art song
word: artspace
word: art speak
word: artspeak
word: artsploitation
word: art student
word: artsy
word: artsy-craftsy
word: art therapy
word: art track
word: art union
word: art up
word: artware
word: artwear
word: artwise
word: artwork
word: artworker
word: artworld
word: art world
word: arty
word: arty-farty
word: Bachelor of Arts
word: beaux-arts
word: beaux arts
word: bioart
word: box art
word: Britart
word: conceptual art
word: concrete art
word: cool art
word: cover art
word: crowd art
word: culinary art
word: cyberart
word: dark art
word: decorative arts
word: digital art
word: domestic arts
word: down to a fine art
word: earth art
word: eco-art
word: endurance art
word: fanart
word: fan art
word: fiber art
word: fine art
word: food art
word: found art
word: funk art
word: glitch art
word: GPS art
word: graffiti art
word: Greek arts
word: healing art
word: household art
word: idea art
word: industrial arts
word: Internet art
word: land art
word: language arts
word: latte art
word: ledger art
word: leg art
word: letter art
word: life imitates art
word: mail art
word: marine art
word: Master of Arts
word: mechanic arts
word: nanoart
word: noble art
word: nonart
word: nose art
word: nut art
word: object of art
word: objet d'art
word: paleoart
word: parietal art
word: performing art
word: person having ordinary skill in the art
word: person of ordinary skill in the art
word: photocopy art
word: piece of art
word: post-object art
word: programmer art
word: public art
word: rock art
word: sand-art
word: sequential art narrative
word: serial art
word: seven arts
word: sideart
word: skin-art
word: skin art
word: sound art
word: stamp art
word: state of the art
word: state-of-the-art
word: term of art
word: textile art
word: tramp art
word: trench art
word: turn something into an art form
word: unarted
word: visual arts
word: word art
word: work of art
word: Xerox art
english: art
translation: art
urls: https://en.wiktionary.org/w/index.php?title=Category:English+lemmas&from=art#mw-pages
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