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Middle English art from Old French art from Latin artem, accusative of ars "art". Displaced native Middle English liste "art" (from Old English list).
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art (countable and uncountable; plural arts)
- (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:
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- (Human effort): mundacity, nature, subsistence
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- 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
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[edit] 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.
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art
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[edit] Albanian
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From Latin ars.
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art m. (definite singular arti)
- art
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art (epicene plural, arts) f.
- art (something pleasing to the mind)
[edit] Cornish
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From Latin ars, artis (“art”).
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- IPA: [ɒɹt]
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art
- art
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art
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[edit] Danish
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From Middle Low German art.
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art c. (singular definite arten, plural indefinite arter)
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[edit] French
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From Latin artem, accusative singular of ars.
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art m. (plural arts)
- art (something pleasing to the mind)
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art
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From Arabic ارض (’arɖ).
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art f.
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From Proto-Celtic *arto- (“bear”) (compare Cornish arth, Welsh arth) < Proto-Indo-European *h₂ŕ̥tḱos (“bear”).
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art m.
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art
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From Proto-Turkic *hārt (“back”).
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art