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单词 art
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art
(ɑːʳt )
Word forms: arts
1. uncountable noun A2
Art consists of paintings, sculpture, and other pictures or objects which are created for people to look at and admire or think deeply about.
...the first exhibition of such art in the West.
...contemporary and modern American art.
...Whitechapel Art Gallery.
Synonyms: artwork, style of art, fine art, creativity  
2. uncountable noun A2
Art is the activity or educational subject that consists of creating paintings, sculptures, and other pictures or objects for people to look at and admire or think deeply about.
...a painter, content to be left alone with her all-absorbing art.
...Farnham College of Art and Design.
...art lessons.
3. variable noun B2
The arts are activities such as music, painting, literature, cinema, and dance, which people can take part in for enjoyment, or to create works which express serious meanings or ideas of beauty.
Catherine the Great was a patron of the arts and sciences.
...the Arts Council of Great Britain.
...the Wexner Centre for the Visual Arts.
...the art of cinema. [+ of]
4. plural noun [oft NOUN noun]
At a university or college, arts are subjects such as history, literature, or languages in contrast to scientific subjects.
...arts and social science graduates.
...the Faculty of Arts.
5. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
Arts or art is used in the names of theatres or cinemas which show plays or films that are intended to make the audience think deeply about the content, and not simply to entertain them.
...the Cambridge Arts Cinema.
6. countable noun
If you describe an activity as an art, you mean that it requires skill and that people learn to do it by instinct or experience, rather than by learning facts or rules.
Fishing is an art.
...the unscientific arts of seduction and romance.
Synonyms: skill, knowledge, method, facility  
7. 
Art is an old-fashioned form of the second person singular of the present tense of the verb be1.
Father, I know thou art aware of me at all times.
8.  See also Bachelor of Arts, fine art, martial art, Master of Arts, state-of-the-art, work of art
Quotations:
Art is a jealous mistressRalph Waldo EmersonConduct of Life
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of musicWalter PaterStudies in the History of the Renaissance
Art is a lie that makes us realise the truthPablo Picasso
In art the best is good enoughJohann Wolfgang von GoetheItalienische Reise
Life is short, the art longHippocratesAphorisms
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visiblePaul KleeInward Vision
Art is a revolt against fateAndré MalrauxLes Voix du silence
Art is...pattern informed by sensibilityHerbert ReadThe Meaning of Art
We must have ... art for art's sake ... the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itselfVictor CousinSorbonne lecture, 1818
It's clever, but is it Art?Rudyard KiplingThe Conundrum of the Workshops
Art is meant to disturb. Science reassuresGeorges BraquePensées sur l'art
a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewilderedAl Capp (of abstract art)
Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work; the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patronsAmbrose BierceThe Devil's Dictionary
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translationThomas Bailey AldrichPonkapog Papers
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of othersWalter LippmannThe Golden Rule and After
Idioms:
have something down to a fine art
to know the best way of doing something because you have practised it a lot and have tried many different methods
They've got fruit selling down to a fine art. You can be sure that your pears will ripen in a day.
Collocations:
art auction
But inside the sale room the drama was palpable - the art auction as highrisk spectator sport.
Times, Sunday Times
The auction house was proved to be right, with the final total being the most paid during an art auction.
Times, Sunday Times
When an art auction fails to raise much tension, the writers blow up a superyacht.
Times, Sunday Times
I nearly forgot to mention that at 37 he has founded and led an international online art auction house that has revolutionised the business.
Times, Sunday Times
Related careers that often cross-over include curators from museums and art auction firms are industry-related careers.
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art critic
Her life as a distinguished art critic and writer and as an influential politician seemed to be over.
Paul Preston DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain (2002)
His earliest journalistic work was as a music and art critic in prewar London.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
My distant, defunct career as an outsider art critic left me with one incandescent conviction: civic galleries are culturally evil.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
art criticism
This art criticism takes up the bulk of the book.
Times, Sunday Times
Try as they might to disclaim it, such narrative proved irresistible to the art criticism of the day.
Times, Sunday Times
Fortunately for us, he also chose to experiment in the medium of the written word - in fiction and art criticism as well as memoir.
Times, Sunday Times
He was pressed by his family to take exams for accountancy but his cultural interests, developed by a course in art criticism, were too pervasive for him to put aside.
Times, Sunday Times
There are stretches of illuminating art criticism and the author writes with winning enthusiasm.
Times, Sunday Times
art curator
The modern wealthy do not just employ domestics to do the cleaning and cooking, but professionals such as personal assistants, advisers and, in one case, an art curator.
Times, Sunday Times
He edited a poetry periodical, and worked as an art curator.
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Art curator gave the inaugural speech for the 2008 show and published an article about this work.
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art design
Gone are the sumptuous art design and sympathetic central characters.
Times, Sunday Times
The company boasts in-house copy editing, art design, database management, and a list brokerage service.
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It majors in engineering science and features a harmonious development and interdisciplinary communication of branches of learning such as management studies, art design, etc.
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Most critics praised the game's art design and gameplay, but criticized the lack of key elements such as a saving feature and scoreboards.
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Nominations for his films were mostly in the areas of cinematography, art design, screenwriting, and music.
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art education
They have also been prominent in art education.
Times, Sunday Times
Generally, students are not required to undergo prior art education and natural skills are acceptable.
ST
Second, the influence of the art colleges and our idiosyncratic, but inspired and unrivalled, art education system.
Times, Sunday Times
It was publishing a tight coterie of writers, all with the same art education, discussing a core curriculum.
The Times Literary Supplement
But then in the 1960s a more academic approach to art education pushed drawing aside as a throwback to the past.
Times, Sunday Times
art exhibit
The top 40 pictures are destined for an art exhibit next month.
Globe and Mail
He told a reporter at the time that he hadn't realized the dust was part of an art exhibit.
Globe and Mail
Visitors are welcome to the meeting and the art exhibit.
Houston Chronicle
It included an art exhibit by artists invited to use museum collections in their works.
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Recently an art exhibit was shown at the local museum.
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art festival
If you own a piece of 'art' that deserves to be burnt, take it along to this flaming art festival.
Times, Sunday Times
They were meant to be shredded but instead used as ballast for an art festival structure.
The Sun
Elsewhere, the art festival has strength in depth.
Times, Sunday Times
Yesterday vandals disconnected an air pump which had been keeping the sculpture inflated for an art festival and cut cables holding it in place.
The Sun
I run workshops at arts festivals and go into schools to teach willow sculpture and hedgerow basketry.
Times, Sunday Times
art fund
If government arts funding falls any more, there won't be any culture left to export.
Times, Sunday Times
She has buttonholed politicians about arts funding in the past.
Times, Sunday Times
That's fine for places with enlightened universities or civic leaders, but what about the towns where local authorities have withdrawn almost completely from arts funding?
Times, Sunday Times
This despite the recession and jitters about what a new cuts-crazed government might do with arts funding.
Times, Sunday Times
In recent decades, company sponsorship has become the second leg of arts funding, at least as important as state backing.
Times, Sunday Times
art historian
The spectator peers over the art historian 's shoulder as he works.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
She was painted canary yellow, commissioned by an art historian from Berkshire and named Hope.
Philip Marsden THE MAIN CAGES (2002)
What pressures are put on the art historian or the classicist?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
art history
But one term of organic chemistry 'freaked me out', and she switched to art history.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
In a show that seeks cockily to rewrite art history, the flotsam is sprinkled generously with jewels.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Of course, in a scavenging post-modernist climate, art history offers rich pickings.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
This is art history's id defeating its ego.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
It must have been one of the most demanding exercises in our art history.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
art installation
He looked at factory work as if it were some amusing art installation.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The artist holds the Guinness world record for the largest art installation made entirely from coat hangers.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The other day I came home and my brother had turned a hamster cage into an art installation.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
A bright rainbow adds the finishing touch to an art installation in the Scottish countryside.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I fizzed around town, a living, breathing, voguing art installation.
The Sun (2012)
art institution
The president of a prestigious art institution has resigned in protest at its policy of exhibiting 'populist' art.
Times, Sunday Times
In 1949 the board decided that, as an applied art institution, the academy should incorporate the training of architects.
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All of these artists scrutinize the ever-increasing presence of artist, curator and art institution alike, as brands.
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Firstly, the artist endeavours to scrutinise the ever-increasing presence of artist, curator and art institution alike, as brands.
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However, trustees of the two estates decided to combine the two bequests along with smaller bequests from others to make a single major art institution.
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art instructor
During the 1930s she worked as an art instructor at a private school.
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He soon married and took a job as a sign painter, leaving school early due to clashes with his art instructor.
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These were two of the most influential art instructors in the world at that time.
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Other significant groups included agricultural workers, coal minors, doctors, martial arts instructors, and nurses.
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art major
He's also an art major, hence visually oriented.
Christianity Today
She started out as an art major, and later switched to philosophy.
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For those students who have a special interest in art, a special art major can be earned.
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She waited to finish her art major in college before debuting, and gave up a chance to study art abroad in order to pursue her acting career.
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The university enrolls approximately 3,800 undergraduate and 850 graduate students in 42 liberal arts majors and five professional schools.
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art object
In all these cases, an everyday object has been reframed in an art context and given a new life as an art object.
Times, Sunday Times
The art object takes on qualities akin to those of life.
Times, Sunday Times
He was preoccupied with the idea of the 'disappearance of the art object', which referred to the gradual move, in art, away from the object towards the idea.
Times, Sunday Times
The art object was on a par with the supermarket commodity, he suggested.
Times, Sunday Times
There was only the art object itself: present, simple, actual.
Times, Sunday Times
art of dance
It's both a gimlet-eyed parody and an oblique celebration of the high drama and fearsome discipline involved in the art of dance.
Times, Sunday Times
All the admiration recognises her seriousness about the art of dance.
Times, Sunday Times
Do you see the art of dance and the art of illustration as being related?
Smithsonian
Her devotion to the art of dance, however, never waned.
Times, Sunday Times
He seemed to be proud of his gambolling, flamboyant manner of acting, but despite all the onscreen dancing he never truly mastered the art of dance.
Times, Sunday Times
art of photography
On these seminars, students are able to learn about the art of photography, computers and its use in the graphic arts.
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The school also encouraged the students in the art of photography.
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During her last years, the art of photography became a harsh rival to her drawn portraits.
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It was the first instance in which the art of photography had been made use of in diplomatic controversy.
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These are awarded to distinguished persons having, from their position or attainments, an intimate connection with the science or fine art of photography or the application thereof.
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art of poetry
Metamorphoses is a treatise on the art of poetry.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
The incumbent is paid a pittance to give a series of lectures on the art of poetry.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
All make serious attempts to consider the relation of the art of poetry to the lives of poets.
The Times Literary Supplement (2010)
art patron
While tending to this congregation, he established his reputation as philanthropist, art patron, and writer on historical subjects.
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He was widely known as an art patron.
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I was working with art patrons and fundraising, which moved me away from a more hands-on role, working with artists.
Times, Sunday Times
He comes from a line of art patrons.
Times, Sunday Times
Awarded biennially, the 25,000 prize funds the work of arts patrons and supporters who inspire young artists to achieve excellence.
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art sculpture
His own eclectic work consists of small sculptures, medals, jewelry, fine art sculpture, public monuments, and tombs.
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As an artist, curator, writer and teacher, his projects span film, choreography, performance, public art sculpture, fine art, and theoretical essays.
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Each court also contained a large modern art sculpture, and the original three anchors each had four trees.
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This museum has the most comprehensive collection of wildfowl carvings in the world, ranging from art sculptures to working decoys used by hunters.
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Huge, colorful graffiti-style murals are painted on the exterior walls, and modern art sculptures are featured inside.
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art studio
Under strict instructions not to take it to his art studio or get paint all over it, he did exactly those two things.
Times, Sunday Times
The money raised will pay for a bursary scheme for sixth-form students, as well as the 3.5 million art studio.
Times, Sunday Times
You can also visit the owners' art studio.
Times, Sunday Times
Add a home office or art studio in your garden under permitted development rules.
Times, Sunday Times
An independent school without its own orchestra, theatre and art studio would be out of business.
Times, Sunday Times
art teacher
His art teacher encouraged him to continue and eventually apply to art school.
Times, Sunday Times
An important thing my art teacher told me at school was that you don't choose the subject: the subject chooses you.
Times, Sunday Times
She recalls a new art teacher whose 'ability to motivate and manage pupils' behaviour was so bad she could not function in the classroom'.
Times, Sunday Times
My art teacher could see my potential and got me a summer job at an architectural practice.
Times, Sunday Times
His caricatures of the masters won him the admiration of his peers - and even the approval of the art teacher.
The Times Literary Supplement
art treasures
The art treasures have been valued by an expert who wishes to remain anonymous.
Times, Sunday Times
This isn't the 18th century: people travel, so there's no need to be nationalistic about the world's art treasures.
Times, Sunday Times
Art treasures have been sold, including 21m worth in 1984, to help fund restoration.
Times, Sunday Times
Restoring and conserving the nation's most valuable art treasures requires an appreciation of art and a scientific brain.
Times, Sunday Times
Its art treasures are worth close to 40m.
Times, Sunday Times
art works
Visitors cannot expect an array of great art works to admire.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We're now invited to consign our art works to his oblivion.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
The overhaul lends new life to the art works on display.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
art workshop
You'll also be able to go to an art workshop and create a copper pendant.
Times, Sunday Times
There are bouncy castles, slides, bungee runs and art workshops.
The Sun
Stalls will sell retro clothing, textiles and crafts, with charity auctions and art workshops.
Times, Sunday Times
Get creative with guided art workshops, plus face painting, music, storytelling and toy swaps.
Times, Sunday Times
The 20 permanent residents have developed community ties by offering art workshops for local primary schools and providing gardening services and bike repairs for their neighbours.
Times, Sunday Times
arts funding
If government arts funding falls any more, there won't be any culture left to export.
Times, Sunday Times
That's fine for places with enlightened universities or civic leaders, but what about the towns where local authorities have withdrawn almost completely from arts funding?
Times, Sunday Times
She has buttonholed politicians about arts funding in the past.
Times, Sunday Times
Two weeks later, his government cut arts funding.
Times, Sunday Times
This despite the recession and jitters about what a new cuts-crazed government might do with arts funding.
Times, Sunday Times
arts programme
A boring topic at the best of times became utterly turgid as a dispute developed over what constituted an arts programme.
Times, Sunday Times
Lots of concerts featuring his works will complement the usual arts programme.
Times, Sunday Times
And the arts programme continues to be at 10pm.
Times, Sunday Times
So now we have a generation of policymakers and business leaders who themselves have never experienced an arts programme.
Times, Sunday Times
Recently the curriculum has expanded to include an extensive arts programme.
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avant-garde art
It’s a realm of experimentation, of avant-garde art.
Smithsonian
A surprisingly stimulating exhibition in which fashion and avant-garde art collide.
Times, Sunday Times
Work highlighting the assimilation of avant-garde art and radical modernism into mainstream culture.
Times, Sunday Times
This bizarre trend hasn't been confined to the avant-garde art world.
Times, Sunday Times
Launched in 2003, this unique boutique festival has provided a fertile meeting point between hard rock, experimental techno and avant-garde art.
Times, Sunday Times
ceramic art
In 1965, he extended this theme to ceramic art.
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A person who makes pots or other ceramic art and wares.
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Sculptural ceramic art includes incense burners and hand or mold-made figurines sometimes used as ocarinas.
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In 1997, it became the site of a museum of contemporary and ceramic art.
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Objects conservators typically specialize in one type of material or class of cultural property, including metals, archaeological artifacts, ethnographic artifacts, glass, and ceramic art.
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classical art
We recognized that classical art, music, and literature have power.
Christianity Today
It draws on folklore and popular culture, medicine, concepts of imagination and classical art to create a new, highly charged, horror image.
Times, Sunday Times
The museum reflects to perfection the taste of the time for dramatic evocations of classical art.
Times, Sunday Times
He was in no doubt that sculpture was the best way to appreciate the legacy of classical art.
Times, Sunday Times
Could this almost classical art work?
Times, Sunday Times
collect art
I collect art and love beautifully tailored fashion pieces.
Times, Sunday Times
I collect art, and that gallery/home feel was my dream.
Times,Sunday Times
I collect art in a very small way.
Times,Sunday Times
They collect art and sell art just to make capital out of it.
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Students, teachers, and the general public were allowed to collect art materials not otherwise found in regular stores.
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complex art
Today they are lighter, faster and schooled in the complex art of counterinsurgency.
Times, Sunday Times
Individual differences are better predictors for preference of complex art than simple art, where no clear personality traits predict preference for simple art.
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Coach-building was a complex art which required many skills.
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Because lack of funding the game, with its complex art and animation, wasn't finished.
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He never thought much of sports and recreation and spent his after school activity time in the computer lab, watching his stocks and developing complex art, animation and video software.
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creative art
The rationale of the award was that the process of marital breakdown could be represented as a creative art.
Times, Sunday Times
The museum was building archaeological, ethnographic, historical, numismatic, art historical, creative art and natural science collections.
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Creative art was enthusiastically produced within such groups, which became gathering points for the counterculture movement.
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Josephs annual creative art and media exhibition.
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It interacted on a large scale with a class of artists from different nationalities and organized around 100 exhibitions for creative art, ceramics, graphics, carvings and others.
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culinary art
Through a series of challenges - from them learning the secrets of romance to transforming a fishfinger sandwich into a work of culinary art.
The Sun
It organises concerts, exhibitions and conferences in which all forms of art are represented, including culinary art.
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He was also known as a polymath, with knowledge in astronomy, geography, meteorology, botanics, cosmetics, culinary art and fashion.
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The isolation that has characterized the region for decades has ensured that it maintained a culinary art alive and independent.
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Among the countless changes this melting pot brought was the enrichment of the culinary art.
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display art
After all, presumably they know how to display art well.
Times, Sunday Times
Three adjacent rooms are used to display art.
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Galleries are displaying art as you might at home, with furniture and accessories.
Globe and Mail
Will you be displaying art or heirlooms?
Times, Sunday Times
Community artists visit the schools, and the students move into their community as artists, performing and displaying art.
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graphic art
In my own department we catered for all forms of graphic art, printing and ceramics.
Times, Sunday Times
In primitive societies communal singing, dancing, plastic and graphic art embody the essence of their creators, and perhaps more importantly promote a sense of pride.
Times, Sunday Times
In addition to the pair’s photographs, the exhibition features original paintings, drawings, sculptures, graphic art and beaded medallions.
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Technological advances permitted accurate and inexpensive reproduction, which fed the public demand for graphic art.
Times, Sunday Times
Photography, graphic art and comic books all feature.
Times, Sunday Times
historical art
If you look at all of what we see of historical art, it's less than one percent.
Times, Sunday Times
It also preserves and displays historical art and artifacts.
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In addition to the substantial historical art collection held by the library gallery the collection consists of works by local artists.
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It shows and collects contemporary and historical art.
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Grand historical art gave way to more widely appealing but less pretentious genre paintings and landscapes.
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indigenous art
There are, however, casualties in this concentration on indigenous art.
The Times Literary Supplement
Her use of ochres and a scarified drawing style recall indigenous art practice.
The Times Literary Supplement
Their bar tabs might be impressive, but they rarely enter taxis, tend to buy cheap ersatz baubles rather than pricey indigenous art, and hardly ever move beyond the beach.
Globe and Mail
Hanging appears in indigenous art, film, music, and literature.
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Her films often feature abstract imagery and non-linear stories; many draw on themes of mythology and indigenous art.
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literary art
From the outset it's very clear that Desert worships at the altar of high literary art.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Publicly funded access to great works of literary art is a sign of a civilised society.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Start with creativity - something undoubtedly exemplified in the domain of great literary art.
The Times Literary Supplement (2011)
master the art of
Sport, like life, is about mastering the art of temporary insanity.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Somehow he has mastered the art of conveying feeling, strong feeling, without seeming emotionally manipulative.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Once she had mastered the art of highlighting and deleting she was left with her first post.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
medieval art
Medieval art was not designed for 21st-century eyes.
Times, Sunday Times
He specializes in medieval art, architecture and manuscripts.
The Times Literary Supplement
Medieval art focused less on the objects it represented than on the viewer whom it aimed to impress and improve.
The Times Literary Supplement
Books on medieval art will have to be rewritten after an ivory carving long dismissed as a forgery was confirmed as a masterpiece of the 12th or 13th century.
Times, Sunday Times
Gory depictions of the end of the world and imaginative illustrations of the afterlife from medieval art onwards provide no convincing examples of early written parallels from the apocrypha.
The Times Literary Supplement
medium of art
I mean, it's all very well fighting the control of a totalitarian state through the medium of art.
Times, Sunday Times
The futurism art movement at the beginning of the 20th century, explored every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, poetry, theatre, music, architecture and even gastronomy.
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I take all opportunities to get involved with different mediums of art.
The Sun
Socialist realism demanded that all mediums of art convey the struggles and triumphs of the proletariat.
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modern art
Most customers at the shop, which resembles a modern art gallery more than a confectioner's, defended the brothers.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Retro chairs and sofas fill the main lounge, and modern art adorns the walls.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
In modern art, this kind of external information is often biographical.
The Times Literary Supplement (2013)
All have unique designs including four-poster beds, modern art and exposed brickwork.
The Sun (2010)
She is inherently and intuitively the meeting place of modern art and commerce.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
modernist art
The images are uncannily suggestive of impressionistic and modernist art.
The Times Literary Supplement
More are about art, particularly, though by no means exclusively, modernist art; others are writings on local history and public architecture, archaeology or travel.
The Times Literary Supplement
In a stroke of irony, one of the problems was the construction of a modernist art gallery on the seafront that bears the artist's name.
Times, Sunday Times
In fact, the first episode of three was a perfectly acceptable history of modernist art between the wars.
Times, Sunday Times
The cause of modernist art, however, was not yet entirely lost.
The Times Literary Supplement
perfect an art
So unless we perfect the art of driving two cars at once, the projected 30% increase in traffic just can't happen.
Times, Sunday Times
Bankers are starting to perfect the art of the public grovel.
Times, Sunday Times
That's 12 months to perfect the art of teetering - or, more likely, tumbling.
The Sun
I'm going to have to learn to perfect that art.
The Sun
Who had done more to perfect the art of tragicomedy?
Times, Sunday Times
performing art
In this case, an experimental performing art.
Times, Sunday Times
Within the arts, music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.
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By the 1960s, the performing art was basically extinct.
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Reader-response criticism argues that literature should be viewed as a performing art in which each reader creates their own, possibly unique, text-related performance.
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The school was to be built with a planetarium and largest performing art center out of the three schools.
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practise the art of
Fighter jets practise the art of low-level combat patrol.
Globe and Mail
Famously, she explained that she had chosen to practise her art as if she were a miniaturist working on a 2in square of ivory.
Times, Sunday Times
Our negotiator-in-chief wants to practise the art of the deal one on one.
Times, Sunday Times
They practised the arts of rhetoric for up to 50 hours a week.
Times, Sunday Times
She practised the art for hours but never warmed up outside before matches because she feared that her hands would become too cold to control the stick.
Times, Sunday Times
primitive art
For his grand projet he planned a museum of 'primitive art'.
The Times Literary Supplement
Alcohol has been shaping our evolution long before the emergence of agriculture, toolmaking or primitive art, he believes.
Times, Sunday Times
This category was previously known, derogatively, as primitive art.
Times, Sunday Times
Borrowings from primitive art has been important to the development of modern art.
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This gave her the idea of a new activity: collect primitive art objects.
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sacred art
Bankers quickly learnt that they could buy themselves some grace by financing sacred art.
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As part of the celebration, a sacred art exhibition was planned.
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They left the first examples of artworks worth of mention, specially in sacred art and building decoration.
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Nevertheless, the 1150s saw restoration and renovation of sacred art and edifices.
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Sacred art also plays a prominent role in this method.
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study art
So she gave up law to study art.
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She dropped out of school, but then went back into education and on to study art.
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That means fewer 18-year-olds equipped to study art and design at college, and consequently fewer training for a career in design.
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Study art in many places, and if possible, leave your own country and immerse yourself in a different culture.
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She also has the strength to go to college and study art and design — and even got a tattoo on her neck — to remind her to stay strong.
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textile art
The family start to collect rare books and textile art to archive in their in-house library, as the foundation of design research for future collections.
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Many quilters and fabric artists use a process called thread drawing (or thread painting) to create embellishments on their projects or to create textile art.
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They are also taken through a step by step process culminating in the creation of their own piece of textile art.
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These may often, as in textile art, be repeated many times in a pattern.
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The same applies to many items of lacquerwork and textile art.
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traditional art
It's in the centre of the action, just steps away from the nearby traditional art and fashion market as well as the famous seafood market.
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Along with traditional art and antiques, the 45 specialist exhibitors offer folk art, early pottery, naive paintings, textiles, metalwork and all kinds of collectibles.
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They are an amalgam of all traditional art.
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He had little truck with traditional art.
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I'm told that, in a few weeks' time, the accountants will move into a series of new open-plan offices that 'preclude the display of traditional art'.
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tribal art
His curiosity and brilliant eye resulted in an extraordinary range of collections in fields as diverse as minerals, shells, natural history specimens and tribal art.
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His main outside interests were natural history, ancient history and archaeology, anthropology, tribal art, mythology and art history.
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Freed from the expectations of tribal art, he became an influence for generations after him through his both work and through teaching.
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This concentration of works and experts constitutes an open-doors fair where visitors can browse through the streets of a whole historic neighbourhood, turned tribal art showcase.
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He was also engaged in a tribal art war.
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visual art
There is not an atom of visual art in any of this rubbish.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Rock and visual art have long been natural bedfellows, of course.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The visual art that appeals to me is calming and contemplative; it slows you down to its pace - the opposite of what dance does.
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western art
He collects western art and buys western land.
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Memento mori might have been one of the biggest themes in western art and literature, but it's stuck on the fringes of our world now.
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The stated reason for their presence was that clients buying western art might feel unsure of themselves.
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While their repertoire includes chinoiserie, patterns are also based on a wider range of themes, including 20th-century western art.
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In western art, the result would be a mess.
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Translations:
Chinese: 艺术
Japanese: 美術
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