art
part of speech
noun (art, arts; an art)
meaning for a pupil
1) Art is making pictures, sculptures and other things that are beautiful or show ideas and feelings, like painting and drawing. tree →
2) Art is also the things made this way, like paintings in a gallery. tree →
3) An art is a skill that takes practice, such as the art of cooking. tree →
4) The arts are subjects like music, dance, drama, painting and literature. tree →
sense in the lessons
At school, art is a lesson where pupils draw, paint, model clay and learn about artists. In everyday life people see art in galleries, museums and on walls. Phrases: art class, work of art, arts and crafts, art gallery, martial arts.
examples
- We have art on Tuesday afternoons. tree →
- I painted a sunflower in art class. tree →
- The museum has art from all over the world. tree →
- Her drawing is a real work of art. tree →
- We did arts and crafts with paper plates. tree →
- Cooking a perfect pancake is an art. tree →
- Karate is a martial art. tree →
- Cave people made art on rock walls long ago. tree →
note
Usually uncountable: art (not an art) when you mean the subject or works; countable in an art meaning a skill, and the arts. Person: artist. Adjectives: artistic, arty. Art is not only painting; music, dance and stories are arts too.
In the corpora
- An art teacher wants to see your own drawing, wobbly lines and all, not a traced copy.
- Some people now suspect any good art might be AI; keeping sketches shows how a picture was made.
- The Renaissance was a period of new learning and art in Europe from around 1400 to 1600.
- A label gives the artist, date and material, but you can enjoy art just by looking and asking yourself questions.
- Whether such paintings are great art is argued: some say they are powerful in real life, others say they are a joke.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «art» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.