the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he s…
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Surrealism
a 20th century movement of artists and writers (developing out of dadaism) who used fantastic images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and dreams
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the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he s…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he s…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.an artistic movement in France beginning in 1907 that featured surfaces of geometrical planes
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling wa…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.a school of late 19th century French painters who pictured appearances by strokes of unmixed colors to give the impression of reflecte…
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine"
Used in the same subject area: Art and design, Art history.genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres
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The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which p…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.An association for promoting art (esp. the arts of design), and giving encouragement to artists.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.Of or pertaining to art or to artists; made in the manner of an artist; conformable to art; characterized by art; showing taste or ski…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.A brush made of badgers' hair, used by artists.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.A beautiful child; -- so called because artists have represented cherubs as beautiful children.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.Belonging to a certain order which is composed of the Ionic order grafted upon the Corinthian. It is called also the Roman or the Ital…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.The act of developing or disclosing that which is unknown; a gradual unfolding process by which anything is developed, as a plan or me…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.Growing or developing within cartilage; -- applied esp. to developing bone.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.Love; the god of love; -- by earlier writers represented as one of the first and creative gods, by later writers as the son of Aphrodi…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.(philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for w…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic mistress.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement; "they went t…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.A constellation of the zodiac, containing the two bright stars Castor and Pollux; also, the third sign of the zodiac, which the sun en…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.A small coin and weight; 1-20th of a shekel.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: 20th, century, movement, artists, writers.That quality of the imagination which gives to ideas an incongruous or fantastic turn, and tends to excite laughter or mirth by ludicr…
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