noun
- The products of human creativity; works of art collectively.
- usage: "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art"
- The creation of beautiful or significant things.
- usage: "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"
- synonyms: art, artistic creation, artistic production
- A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation.
- usage: "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art"
- Photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication.
- usage: "the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book"
- synonyms: artwork, art, graphics, nontextual matter
- Studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills. )
- usage: "the college of arts and sciences"
- synonyms: humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts
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