art form

noun

the more or less established structure, pattern, or scheme followed in shaping an artistic work: The sonata, the sonnet, and the novel are all art forms.

a medium for artistic expression: ballet, sculpture, opera, and other art forms.

a medium other than the artistic regarded as having highly developed or systematized rules, procedures, or formulations: international diplomacy regarded as an art form.

Origin of art form

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby art form

artesian well, Arteveld, Artex, art film, art for art's sake, art form, artful, art glass, art historical, art house, arthr-

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Example sentences from the Web for art form

If this were so, it were a grievous fault—at any rate in so far as the moving-picture play aims at being an art-form.
A Librarian's Open Shelf|Arthur E. Bostwick
It is Gally's concept of the character as an art-form, however, which is most interesting to the modern scholar.
A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings|Henry Gally
Besides, being confessedly an art-form, duly licensed to lie, it is apt to be misunderstood.
Prose Fancies|Richard Le Gallienne
The complete establishment of the quartet as an art-form worthy to rank beside the symphony is due to Beethoven.
How Music Developed|W. J. Henderson

The doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence appears for the last time here, in an art-form.
Thus Spake Zarathustra|Friedrich Nietzsche

British Dictionary definitions for art form

art form

noun

a conventionally established form of artistic composition, such as the symphony or the sonnet

a recognized medium of artistic expression

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单词	art form
释义	art form noun the more or less established structure, pattern, or scheme followed in shaping an artistic work: The sonata, the sonnet, and the novel are all art forms. a medium for artistic expression: ballet, sculpture, opera, and other art forms. a medium other than the artistic regarded as having highly developed or systematized rules, procedures, or formulations: international diplomacy regarded as an art form. Origin of art form First recorded in 1865–70 Words nearby art form artesian well, Arteveld, Artex, art film, art for art's sake, art form, artful, art glass, art historical, art house, arthr- Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for art form If this were so, it were a grievous fault—at any rate in so far as the moving-picture play aims at being an art-form. A Librarian's Open Shelf\|Arthur E. Bostwick It is Gally's concept of the character as an art-form, however, which is most interesting to the modern scholar. A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings\|Henry Gally Besides, being confessedly an art-form, duly licensed to lie, it is apt to be misunderstood. Prose Fancies\|Richard Le Gallienne The complete establishment of the quartet as an art-form worthy to rank beside the symphony is due to Beethoven. How Music Developed\|W. J. Henderson The doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence appears for the last time here, in an art-form. Thus Spake Zarathustra\|Friedrich Nietzsche British Dictionary definitions for art form art form noun a conventionally established form of artistic composition, such as the symphony or the sonnet a recognized medium of artistic expression Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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