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Art Dictionary

Ridgeway's Art Dictionary and Comments : Art

Art: definition

ART TERMS

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n. 1. The creation of a work of beauty or other special significance (as distinguished from nature)

2. Practical ability, or its application, leads to the production of beauty (especially visible beauty)

3. Imaginative talent as applied to representations of the natural world or figments of the imagination.

4. Works of art collectively, especially of the visual arts 

5. Any branch of the visual arts (painting, sculpture and etc)

Art: comments

Art could be used for describing skill, method, facility and knack, or knowledge governing a particular human activity or department: the art of government, the art of threading a needle, cunning, artifice or crafty conduct.

Art as a term has a very versatile meaning. As a product of skill and experience an artwork could be considered as a craft  rather than a piece of fine art which refers to pure aesthetics and vivid imagery.

Ridgeway's Art Dictionary is designed for the purpose of helping everybody

who is interested or involved in fine art to understand the terms and definitions of art.