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Definition: Work Of Art |
Work Of ArtNoun1. Art that is a product of one of the fine arts (especially a painting or sculpture of artistic merit). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Beauty | Pea butterfly; garden; flower of, pink of; bijou; jewel; (ornament); work of art. |
Ornament | Fleuron; head piece, tail piece; cul-de-lampe; flowers of rhetoric; work of art. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Work Of Art |
| English words defined with "work of art": autotelism ♦ Chiaro-oscuro ♦ Eikon, ensemble ♦ Incunabulum ♦ magnum opus, Mechanography ♦ objet d'art ♦ Pasticcio, pastiche, period piece ♦ Statuary marble ♦ title, tout ensemble ♦ warhorse. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "work of art": replica ♦ SCAFFOLD. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | A work of art like my famous spiced bread takes time, Cringer (The Secret of the Sword; writing credit: Lawrence G. DiTillio; Bob Forward) | |
Lyrics | It's a start, a work of art ("Fight the Power"; performing artist: Public Enemy) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Work of Art (1965) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | A child's health is a precious as a work of art. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |  | Do you call that a work of art! : Certainly not, sir, it is a monument to our brave boys. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Eugene Ionesco | A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art. |
Jean Cocteau | When a work of art appears to be in advance of its period, it is really the period that has lagged behind the work of art. |
Michael Angelo | The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. |
Oscar Wilde | One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art. |
| No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists. | |
| The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral. | |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit in every work of art. |
Washington Allsion | Never judge a work of art by its defects. |
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Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. |
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Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is supposed to be more beautiful than it looks. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
photographing work of art | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "work of art"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Arabic | تفنن. (various references) | |
Danish | kunstnerisk skaben (artistic creation). (various references) | |
Dutch | kunstwerk (work), kunstvoorwerp, kunststuk, artistieke schepping (artistic creation). (various references) | |
Esperanto | artaĵo. (various references) | |
Finnish | taideteos, taide-esine. (various references) | |
French | création artistique. (various references) | |
Frisian | keunstwurk. (various references) | |
German | Kunstwerk (artwork, piece of art). (various references) | |
Greek | έργο τέχνης (artistic creation). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מלאכת מחשבת (artistic work, masterpiece, masterwork). (various references) | |
Hungarian | mûalkotás (artifact), műremek (artwork), műalkotás (artwork). (various references) | |
Italian | creazione artistica (artistic creation). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 芸"作" (artwork, object d'art), 美"" . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | びじゅつひ", 'いじゅつさくひ" (artwork, object d'art). (various references) | |
Manx | schleideraght, obbyr ellyn. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | orkway ofay artay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | obra de arte, criação artística (artistic creation). (various references) | |
Romanian | operã de artã (workmanship). (various references) | |
Russian | произведение искусства. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | umetnički delo. (various references) | |
Spanish | trabajo artistico (artistic creation), obra de arte (engineering structure, works), creacion artistica (artistic creation). (various references) | |
Swedish | konstföremål (object of art, objet d'art), konstalster. (various references) | |
Turkish | sanat eseri (artwork, set piece). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ars, artificio, machina. (various references) |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-f-k-o-o-r-r-t-w" | |
-2 letters: artwork. | |
-3 letters: farrow, karroo, orator. | |
-4 letters: afoot, arrow, karoo, korat, kotow, kraft, rotor, tarok, troak. | |
-5 letters: faro, foot, fora, fork, fort, frat, frow, kart, koto, okra, orra, raft, rato, roar, roof, rook, root, rota, roto, taro, took, tora, toro, torr, trow, waft, wark, wart, woof, work, wort. | |
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