art
Definitions
- Abbreviation of Achilles tendon reflex time.
- 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.
- A diminutive of the male given name Arthur, from the Celtic languages.
- Abbreviation of assisted reproductive technology.
- antiretroviral therapy
- The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
- skill
- Abbreviation of Androgen Replacement Therapy.
- A second person singular present indicative of be.
- Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
- Abbreviation of Active Release Technique.
- 2nd pers. sing. pres. indic. of be.
- The study and the product of these processes.
- Abbreviation of Adaptive resonance theory.
- var. of -ard: braggart.
- Aesthetic value.
- Abbreviation of Algebraic Reconstruction Technique.
- a spontaneous, intuitive painting technique producing nonformal work characterized by sinuous lines. Also called Action Painting.
- Artwork.
- Abbreviation of Alternative Risk Transfer.
- the creation of abstract art. — abstractionist, n., adj.
- A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- Abbreviation of acoustic resonance technology.
- a nonrepresentational style in painting or sculpture.
- (often in dichotomy with science) A subject understood best through intuition rather than methodology.
- Abbreviation of antiretroviral therapy.
- etching in relief; the opposite of engraving.
- Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
- Abstract Expressionism.
- Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
- an art form, as a story, painting, or sculpture, in which the components have a symbolic, figurative meaning. — allegorist, allegorizer, n. — allegorical, adj.
Equivalents
72 more languages
Afrikaanskuns
አማርኛጥበብ
Беларускаямастацтва
བོད་སྐད།སྒྱུ་རྩལ
Catalàart
Cymraegcelfyddyd
Esperantoarto
Eestikunst
Euskaraarte
Gaeilgeealaín
Galegoarte
עבריתאמנות
Magyarművészet
Հայերենարվեստ
ქართულიხელოვნება
ភាសាខ្មែរសិល្បៈ
LëtzebuergeschKonscht
ລາວສິນລະປະ
Lietuviųmenas
Te Reo Māoritoi
മലയാളംകല
Монголурлаг
मराठीकला
Bahasa Melayuseni
မြန်မာအနုပညာ
ਪੰਜਾਬੀਕੱਲਾ
Slovenčinaumenie
Тоҷикӣсанъат
ไทยศิลปะ
ትግርኛጥበብ
Türkmençesungat
Tagalogsining
ئۇيغۇرچەسەنئەت
O'zbekchasanʼat
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.”
“She's mastered the art of programming.”
“He's at university to study⟳ art.”
“Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.”
“Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.”
“art collection”
“I'm a great supporter of the arts.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
CEFR level
A2
Elementary
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
This word is part of the CEFR A2 vocabulary — elementary level.
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