单词 | work of art |
释义 | > as lemmaswork of art b. work of art: something produced or created by skill or craft. In later use spec.: a product of the creative arts, esp. one with strong aesthetic or imaginative appeal; a fine picture, sculpture, poem, musical composition, etc. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1572 J. Jones Bathes of Bathes Ayde iii. f. 27 All may be reduced, to those three [signs] of Galen, as it also appeareth by Hippocrates,..who wyll haue the Indicatiues to be vnderstanded afore any other works of art. 1585 R. Parsons Christian Directorie i. ii. 30 If he should espie some exquisite building or other worke of arte and reason in the place. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients iii. 28 It would be wonderfull easie for us to prove here..how pitifully poore and ridiculous the first workes of Art have been. 1689 N. Tate et al. tr. A. Cowley Of Plants iv, in 3rd Pt. Wks. 89 Each hollow Leaf, envelop'd, does impart The form of a gilt Pipe, and seems a work of Art. 1700 J. Astry tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Royal Politician I. 102 There's scarce any one Instrument can by its self make a Work of Art entirely perfect. 1792 W. Gilpin On Landscape Painting 43 in Three Ess. The inferior critic has no scale of judging of a work of art, but by comparing it with some other work of the same kind. 1823 European Mag. Dec. 551/2 A curious work of art has just been produced by Mr. Clark, under the appellation of Myriorama, or Many Thousand Views. 1883 Atlantic Monthly Jan. 86 The homage of rapt appreciation due to a great work of art. 1906 Daily Chron. 29 Oct. 3/5 In ‘The Duchess of Dantzic’..he produced a ‘comedy-opera’—such is the new word!—which was a genuine and delightful work of art. 1949 A. Koestler Insight & Outlook 410 The more romantic a work of art, or a landscape, the quicker its repetitions are perceived as kitsch or ‘slush’. 1994 N.Y. Times Mag. 19 June 25/3 Women are real works of art. 2011 A. D. Morton Revol. & State in Mod. Mexico v. 140 Attitudes present in a work of art can..be appreciated from an aesthetic point of view while also subjecting the same to critique in terms of ideological content. < as lemmas |
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