Art Definition
See also Art, and árt
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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Middle English art from Old French art from Latin artem, accusative of ars "art". Displaced native Middle English liste "art" (from Old English list).
Noun
art (countable and uncountable; plural arts)
Wikipedia has an article on: Art- (uncountable) Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
- (uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
- There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
- (uncountable) Activity intended to make something special.
- (uncountable) A re-creation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value judgements.
- (uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
- (uncountable) Aesthetic value.
- (uncountable, printing) Artwork.
- (countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
- (countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
- (countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 217:
- 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.
- 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 217:
Synonyms
Antonyms
- (Human effort): mundacity, nature, subsistence
Quotations
- 2005, "I tell her what Donald Hall says: that the problem with workshops is that they trivialize art by minimizing the terror." -July Harper's, Lynn Freed
- 2009, "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." - Extended Essay on Visual Art, Alexander Brouwer
Derived terms
terms derived from art- Look at pages starting with art.
Translations
human effort
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Etymology 2
From Middle English, from Old English eart (“(thou) art”), second-person singular present indicative of beon-wesan, from Proto-Germanic *ar-t (“(thou) art", originally, "(thou) becamest”), second-person singular preterite indicative form of *iranan (“to rise, be quick, become active”), from Proto-Indo-European *er-, *or(w)- (“to lift, rise, set in motion”). Cognate with Icelandic ert (“art”), Old English earon (“are”), from the same preterite-present Germanic verb. More at are.
Verb
art
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Albanian
Etymology
From Latin ars.
Noun
art m. (definite singular arti)
- art
Catalan
Catalan Wikipedia has an article on: ArtNoun
art m. and f. (plural arts)
- art (something pleasing to the mind)
Related terms
- artista
- artístic
Cornish
Etymology
From Latin ars, artis (“art”).
Pronunciation
- IPA: [ɒɹt]
Noun
art
- art
Crimean Tatar
Noun
art
Synonyms
- arqa, sırt
Danish
Etymology
From Middle Low German art.
Noun
art c. (singular definite arten, plural indefinite arter)
Inflection
Inflection of art| common gender | Singular | Plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative, dative and accusative | art | arten | arter | arterne |
| genitive | arts | artens | arters | arternes |
French
Etymology
From Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.
Pronunciation
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audio (file)
Noun
art m. (plural arts)
- art (something pleasing to the mind)
Derived terms
Anagrams
Latvian
Verb
art (third-person present tense ar, third-person past tense ara)
Conjugation
conjugation of art| infinitive (nenoteiksme) | art | ||||||
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| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
| 1st person (pirmā persona) | 2nd person (otrā persona) | 3rd person (trešā persona) | 1st person (pirmā persona) | 2nd person (otrā persona) | 3rd person (trešā persona) | ||
| indicative (īstenības izteiksme) | es | tu | viņš / viņa | mēs | jūs | viņi / viņas | |
| present (tagadne) | aru | ar | ar | aram | arat | ar | |
| past (pagātne) | aru | ari | ara | arām | arāt | ara | |
| future (nākotne) | aršu | arsi | ars | arsim | arsiet, arsit | ars | |
| imperative (pavēles izteiksme) | - | (tu) | viņš / viņa | mēs | (jūs) | viņi / viņas | |
| — | ar | lai ar | arsim | ariet | lai ar | ||
| subjunctive (vēlējuma izteiksme) | es | tu | viņš / viņa | mēs | jūs | viņi / viņas | |
| artu | artu | artu | artu | artu | artu | ||
| relative (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | es | tu | viņš / viņa | mēs | jūs | viņi / viņas | |
| present (tagadne) | arot | arot | arot | arot | arot | arot | |
| future (nākotne) | aršot | aršot | aršot | aršot | aršot | aršot | |
| debitive (vajadzības izteiksme) | man | tev | viņam / viņai | mums | jums | viņiem / viņām | |
| jāar | jāar | jāar | jāar | jāar | jāar | ||
Maltese
Etymology
From Arabic ارض (’arɖ).
Noun
art f.
Old Irish
Etymology
From Proto-Celtic *arto- (“bear”) (compare Cornish arth, Welsh arth) < Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”).
Noun
art m.
Synonyms
Swedish
Pronunciation
-
audio (file)
Noun
art c.
Declension
Declension of art| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | art | arten | arter | arterna |
| genitive | arts | artens | arters | arternas |
Turkish
Etymology
From Old Turkic art, from Proto-Turkic *hārt (“back”).
Noun
art
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