1 N-UNCOUNT 艺术（品）；美术 Art consists of paintings, sculpture, and other pictures or objects which are created for people to look at and admire or think deeply about. 艺术（品）；美术
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...the first exhibition of such art in the West.
此类艺术品在西方的首次展览
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...contemporary and modern American art.
近现代美洲艺术
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...Whitechapel Art Gallery.
白教堂美术馆
SYN artwork, style of art, fine art, creativity
2 N-UNCOUNT （作为活动或教学科目的）美术 Art is the activity or educational subject that consists of creating paintings, sculptures, and other pictures or objects for people to look at and admire or think deeply about. （作为活动或教学科目的）美术
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...a painter, content to be left alone with her all-absorbing art.
甘愿独自沉浸于绘画中的画家
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...Farnham College of Art and Design.
法纳姆美术设计学院
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...art lessons.
美术课
3 N-VAR 艺术（活动）（如音乐、绘画、文学、电影、舞蹈等） The arts are activities such as music, painting, literature, cinema, and dance, which people can take part in for enjoyment, or to create works which express serious meanings or ideas of beauty. 艺术（活动）（如音乐、绘画、文学、电影、舞蹈等）
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Catherine the Great was a patron of the arts and sciences.
叶卡捷琳娜大帝赞助过各种艺术创作和科学研究。
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...the Arts Council of Great Britain.
大不列颠艺术委员会
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...the Wexner Centre for the Visual Arts.
威克斯纳视觉艺术中心
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...the art of cinema. [+ of]
电影艺术
4 N-PLURAL [oft NOUN n] 人文学科;文科 At a university or college, arts are subjects such as history, literature, or languages in contrast to scientific subjects. 人文学科;文科
5 ADJ [ADJ n] （用于剧院或电影院的名称中）上演艺术作品的，艺术的 Arts or art is used in the names of theatres or cinemas which show plays or films that are intended to make the audience think deeply about the content, and not simply to entertain them. （用于剧院或电影院的名称中）上演艺术作品的，艺术的
6 N-COUNT 技术；技艺；技巧 If you describe an activity as an art, you mean that it requires skill and that people learn to do it by instinct or experience, rather than by learning facts or rules. 技术；技艺；技巧
SYN skill, knowledge, method, facility
7 （be的现在式单数第二人称形式，过时用法） Art is an old-fashioned form of the second person singular of the present tense of the verb be. （be的现在式单数第二人称形式，过时用法）
8 See also: Bachelor of Arts fine art martial art Master of Arts state-of-the-art work of art
Quotations
Art is a jealous mistress Ralph Waldo Emerson Conduct of Life
All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music Walter Pater Studies in the History of the Renaissance
Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth Pablo Picasso
In art the best is good enough Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Italienische Reise
Life is short, the art long Hippocrates Aphorisms
Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible Paul Klee Inward Vision
Art is a revolt against fate André Malraux Les Voix du silence
Art is...pattern informed by sensibility Herbert Read The Meaning of Art
We must have ... art for art's sake ... the beautiful cannot be the way to what is useful, or to what is good, or to what is holy; it leads only to itself Victor Cousin Sorbonne lecture, 1818
It's clever, but is it Art? Rudyard Kipling The Conundrum of the Workshops
Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures Georges Braque Pensées sur l'art
a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered Al Capp (of abstract art)
Formerly, painting and sculpture were combined in the same work; the ancients painted their statues. The only present alliance between the two arts is that the modern painter chisels his patrons Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary
True art selects and paraphrases, but seldom gives a verbatim translation Thomas Bailey Aldrich Ponkapog Papers
Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others Walter Lippmann The Golden Rule and After
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