English > art: 4 senses > noun 2, act| Meaning | The creation of beautiful or significant things. |
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| Examples | - "art does not need to be innovative to be good"
- "I was never any good at art"
- "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
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| Synonyms | artistic creation, artistic production |
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| Category of | Americana | Any artifact (such as books or furniture or art) that is distinctive of America |
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| aesthetics, esthetics | (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art) |
| appraiser, authenticator | One who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity |
| aquatint | etch in aquatint |
| art, fine art | The products of human creativity |
| cartoon | Draw cartoons of |
| cathartic, releasing | emotionally purging (of e.g. art) |
| charcoal | Draw, trace, or represent with charcoal |
| charge | place a heraldic bearing on |
| deaccession | sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works |
| distemper | paint with distemper |
| draw | represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface |
| emblazon, blazon | decorate with heraldic arms |
| engrave, etch | carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block |
| ensemble, tout ensemble | An assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole |
| etch | make an etching / etching of |
| exhibition, exposition, expo | A collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display |
| expressive style, style | A way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period |
| film, cinema, celluloid | A medium that disseminates moving pictures |
| finger-paint | apply colors with one's fingers |
| formalistic, formalized, formalised | concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized / recognized forms (especially in religion or art) |
| fresco | paint onto wet plaster on a wall |
| ground | (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting |
| illuminate | add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) |
| illustrate | depict with an illustration |
| lithograph | make by lithography |
| longueur | A period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art) |
| miniate | paint with red lead or vermilion |
| miniate, rubricate | decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red |
| model, mold, mould | form in clay, wax, etc |
| model, pose, sit, posture | assume a posture as for artistic purposes |
| moderne | Of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes |
| nonrepresentational | Of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature |
| paint | make a painting / painting of |
| paint | make a painting / painting |
| picture, depict, render, show | show in, or as in, a picture / picture |
| popular, pop | (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people) |
| portray, depict, limn | make a portrait of |
| portray, present | represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture |
| repaint | paint again |
| represent, interpret | create an image or likeness of |
| sculpt, sculpture | create by shaping stone / stone or wood or any other hard material |
| shade, fill in | represent the effect of shade or shadow on |
| silkscreen | Print by silkscreen |
| sketch, chalk out | make a sketch of |
| stagnation, stagnancy, doldrums | A state of inactivity (in business or art etc) |
| stencil | mark or print with a stencil |
| stipple | engrave by means of dots and flicks |
| stipple | make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink |
| stylize, stylise, conventionalize | represent according to a conventional style |
| talaria | A winged sandal (as worn by Hermes in Graeco-Roman art) |
| tension | A balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature) |
| theorist, theoretician, theorizer, theoriser, idealogue | someone who theorizes / theorizes (especially in science or art) |
| vocabulary | The system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression / expression (as in arts or crafts) |
| watercolour, watercolor | paint with watercolors / watercolors |
| Narrower | arts and crafts | The arts of decorative design and handicraft |
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| ceramics | The art of making and decorating pottery |
| decalcomania | The art of transfering designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface |
| decoupage | The art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures / pictures and then coating it with vanish or lacquer |
| drawing, draftsmanship, drafting | The creation of artistic pictures or diagrams |
| gastronomy | The art and practice of choosing and preparing and eating good food |
| glyptography | carving or engraving / engraving (especially on stones / stones / stones / stones) |
| origami | The Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds) |
| painting | creating a picture with paints |
| perfumery | The art of making perfumes |
| printmaking | artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens |
| sculpture, carving | creating figures or designs in three dimensions |
| topiary | making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees |
| Broader | creation, creative activity | The human act of creating |
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| Spanish | arte, creación artística, producción artística |
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| Catalan | art, creació artística, producció artística |
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| Nouns | artist | a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination / imagination |
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