art
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-
Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis
Proto-Italic *artis
Latin ars
Latin artemder.
Old French artbor.
Middle English art
English art
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. See also archaic English list (“art, craft, cunning, skill”).
Inflected forms:
form: arts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
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.
"I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror."
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.
gloss: The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: She's mastered the art of programming.
gloss: The study and the product of these processes.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: He's at university to study art.
gloss: Aesthetic value.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
gloss: Artwork.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
art collection
gloss: A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: I'm a great supporter of the arts.
gloss: (often in dichotomy with science) A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
gloss: Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: 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.
The relation of science to art may be summed up in a brief expression: From Science comes Prevision: from Prevision comes Action.
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.
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.
gloss: Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
pos: noun
tags: dated
uncountable
examples: 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.
[...] 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.
Antonyms: mundacity
nature
subsistence
Derived words: 7th art
AADAOPA
academic art
allied arts
antiart
anti-art
anti-object art
applied arts
art and part
art block
artboard
artbook
art class
art dealer
Art Deco
art director
artefact
art epic
arterati
Artex
art exhibition
artfag
artfest
art film
art for art's sake
art form
artfuck
artful
art gallery
art gallery problem
art game
art glass
artgoing
art gum
art handler
art historian
art-historical
art history
art hoe
arthood
art-house
art house
artifact
artifice
artificial
artificial art
art imitates life
artisan
artist
artiste
artistic
artistry
artivism
artivist
art journal
artless
artlike
art line
artly
artmaker
artmaking
artmobile
art movement
art movie
art music
art name
art nouveau
art object
art of the possible
art of war
artographer
artotype
artpaper
art paper
artpiece
art piece
art pop
artpreneur
art punk
art rock
art room
arts and crafts
arts and letters
art school
arts degree
artsome
art song
artspace
artspeak
art speak
artsploitation
art student
artsy
artsy-craftsy
art therapy
art track
art union
art up
artware
artwear
artwise
artwork
artworker
art world
artworld
arty
arty-farty
Bachelor of Arts
beaux arts
beaux-arts
bioart
box art
Britart
conceptual art
concrete art
cool art
cover art
crowd art
culinary art
cyberart
dark art
decorative arts
digital art
domestic arts
down to a fine art
earth art
eco-art
endurance art
fan art
fanart
fiber art
fine art
food art
found art
funk art
glitch art
good girl art
GPS art
graffiti art
Greek arts
healing art
household art
idea art
industrial arts
Internet art
land art
language arts
latte art
ledger art
leg art
letter art
life imitates art
mail art
marine art
Master of Arts
mechanic arts
nanoart
noble art
nonart
nose art
nut art
object of art
objet d'art
operational art
paleoart
parietal art
performing art
person having ordinary skill in the art
person of ordinary skill in the art
photocopy art
piece of art
post-object art
programmer art
public art
rock art
sand-art
sequential art narrative
serial art
seven arts
sideart
skin art
skin-art
sound art
stamp art
state of the art
state-of-the-art
term of art
textile art
tramp art
trench art
turn something into an art form
unarted
visual arts
word art
work of art
Xerox art
English terms starting with
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: kuns
lang: Arabic
word: فَنّ
roman: fann
lang: Arabic
word: فُنُون
roman: funūn
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 藝術 /艺术
roman: yìshù
lang: Dutch
word: kunst
lang: Finnish
word: kuvataide
lang: Finnish
word: taide
lang: Finnish
word: kuvaamataito
lang: French
word: art
lang: Irish
word: ealaín
lang: Italian
word: arte
lang: Kannada
word: ಕಲೆ
roman: kale
lang: Latin
word: ars
lang: Portuguese
word: arte
lang: Russian
word: иску́сство
roman: iskússtvo
lang: Slovak
word: umenie
lang: Spanish
word: arte
lang: Tamil
word: கலை
roman: kalai
lang: Welsh
word: celfyddyd