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art

(uncountable: there is no plural) Any man-made object which is either beautiful or makes the viewer think. Common examples of art are paintings and photographs. The gallery has many pieces of art. A creation or study of pieces of art. Painting, music and writing are arts. An action which is done very well; a skill She has making baskets down to an art.

art

the products of human creativity; works of art collectively an art exhibition a fine collection of art the creation of beautiful or significant things 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 a superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation the art of conversation it's quite an art (= artwork) photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book

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Flower arrangement is a traditional art in Japan.
He decided to abandon law for art.
I like art.
Are you interested in art?
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Tom is majoring in art, isn't he?
Who buys this type of art?
Where art thou?
Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
Her garden is a work of art.
Fantasy is often the mother of art.
The art of modern warfare does not necessarily require soldiers to be armed to the teeth to be effective as combatants.
Kabuki is an old Japanese art.
Science and art must contribute to the promotion of human welfare.
Where's the nearest art gallery?
Our tastes in art agree.
Boxing has been defined as the art of hitting without being hit.
The French are said to love art.
Tom has an eye for modern art.
Karate is an art of unarmed defense.
Never confuse art with life.
It's a wonderful work of art.
Jim seems to know the art of making friends with girls.
This we can call a work of art.

Movie subtitles

This is also the art of war. For the sake of winning.
SHE GROANS Can someone prep me for an art line, please?
You ever think about maybe hanging a little art in here or something, anything?
So, after school, maybe we'll, uh. We'll stop by the art store and get you a new sketchbook and, um, some of those. What. what.
WHISPERS: Our Father, which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
A new art gallery, a new museum.
The last thing it needs is a new bloody art gallery or museum.
People can't live in art.
You know, they cooked, they bought art, they went to Iceland, which I know, because I stalked Coco online until 2:00 a.m. last night.
Please tell me the board does not have a problem with classic Renaissance art.
Meanwhile, Sandro's mother, seeking her son's salvation, gets into the art gallery, burns the dangerous painting and dies.
Our father who art in heaven.
For the photography I am grateful to Mr. Johan Ankerstjerne and to Mr. Richard Louw for the art direction.
Mine God, thou art merciful and a great goodness.
Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou amongst women.
So, after school, maybe we'll, uh. We'll stop by the art store and get you a new sketchbook and, um, some of those.
Welcome to grade 12 art.
Are we gonna make art or what?
I copied that painting at art school a year ago.
What does he know about art?
Especially for art.
What is your opinion of art?
After all, art is art.
Think I care about Art?
Art and science.
Would you deny the professor a display of my art?
This is also the art of war.
Some time later, the art exhibit opens.
There's art here.
As for you, I'm going on record that that art business is going to get you in a beautiful jam.
I too have my art.
Come on, let's go ahead and play art.
How's this work of art coming along?
I think I'll get a studio for myself and take up art seriously.
Art and all that.
You know, Paris is a great art center.
I'm not much on art, but they look great to me.
There's money in art like in anything else.

News and current affairs

By renouncing simplicity, it also repudiates today's prevailing confusion of information with literature, of facts with creativity, and best-selling products with true works of art.
The occasion for this latest round of historical jousting is the release of Clooney's new film The Monuments Men, which details Allied efforts to rescue art works from the Nazis during World War II.
The designated successor to Mao Zedong in China, Hua Guofeng, raised this attitude to an art form.
The art of statecraft is not to choose between war and diplomacy as if they were mutually exclusive alternatives, but to understand how they fit together.
As well as scientists from the relevant disciplines, art theorists, psychiatrists, language experts and philosophers are beginning to participate in the discussion.
Like the artists and their art, the country could elevate itself from the dichotomies of old-new, past-present, and traditional-modern to project an image appropriate to our globalizing age.
If politics is defined as the art of compromise, Arafat was a master of it at the Palestinian and Arab levels.
Imagine the panic that would have ensued in a world where gold, storable commodities, and art were the only ways for investors to flee from the dollar.
All this clustering resulted in state-of-the-art production and cutting-edge business.
CAMBRIDGE - What impact will China's slowdown have on the red-hot contemporary art market?
That might not seem like an obvious question, until one considers that, for emerging-market investors, art has become a critical tool for facilitating capital flight and hiding wealth.
These investors have become a major factor in the art market's spectacular price bubble of the last several years.
What made Fink's elevation of art to investment-grade status so surprising is that no one of his stature had been brave enough to say it before.
I tend to agree with the philosopher Peter Singer that the obscene sums being spent on premier pieces of modern art are disquieting.
Nowhere is this trend more damaging than in today's mercantile approach to art.
The US is the only country with large state of the art air, naval, and ground forces capable of global deployment - thus, the quick victory in Iraq last year.
A member of a collective called Najeen (Survivors), Rasheed is part of a vanguard of younger artists, writers, and filmmakers whose work attests to their commitment to art in the midst of crisis.
We will seek to improve the practical application of the Art Restitution Law of 1998 and encourage similar restitution steps among local and regional governmental bodies.
NEW YORK - The times we live in are often most clearly reflected in the mirror of art.
That thought may lead us to disdain the kind of philanthropic graffiti that leads to donors' names being prominently displayed on concert halls, art museums, and college buildings.
The structure of service delivery and the funding of health services work to discourage professionals from the art of care-giving, and can, in fact, undermine the practitioner's efforts.
Nor is the claim that Islam is intrinsically inimical to innovation viable, because Muslim civilization has contributed mightily to science and art throughout history.
Chinese officials had clearly decided that these diaspora darlings of the international art scene should be now claimed as China's own.
In northwest Pakistan's Swat valley armed Islamist militants recently attacked one of the oldest and most important sculptures of Buddhist art.
In essence, the practitioner must come to feel that the art of care-giving is as much at stake as the science and technology of diagnosis and treatment.