Art

Noun

 * 1)  Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.
 * 2)  The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
 * 3)  Activity intended to make something special.
 * 4)  A re-creation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value judgements.
 * 5)  The study and the product of these processes.
 * 6)  Aesthetic value.
 * 7)  Artwork.
 * 8)  A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
 * 9)  A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
 * 10)  Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.

Verb

 * 1)  Second-person singular simple present tense indicative of be.

Adjectives for Art
elaborate; consummate; undying; pleasurable; delicate; gentle; analogous; remarkable; serious; subtle; new; wonderful; ingenious; experienced; sophisticated; noblest;superb; ripe; gracious; obliging; unsurpassable; fine; tedious; glowing; profound; proficient; great; simple; sincere; glorious; pure; epic; meticulous; surpassing; graphic; snubbed; aristocratic; modernistic; plastic; decorative; landscape; ancient; rustic; epistolary; contemporary; poetic; constructive; modern; applied; dramatic; elegant; antiquated; pyrotechnic; seeming; inscrutable; suave; finished; vanishing; fine;mystical; living; enviable; esoteric; replaced; cultured; lost; symbolic; fancy;hidden; servile; musical; colorless; blandishing (plural); kindred; perfidious; vital; culinary; fascinating; healing; peaceful; unpremeditated; specious; inventive; cunning; brain-spattering;  baneful;  fickle; windpipe-slitting; flawless; matchless; structural; virile; indigenous; superhuman; dreadful; tonsorial; imitative; classicizing; black; inharmonious; recreational; canonic; piscatorial; sunny; fertilizing; sublime; instrumental; regal; enrapturing; rational; idealistic; acquired; substantial; representative; lenient; vagrant; agile; equestrian; fearful; grotesque: public; deathless; prosperous; evasive; memorial; coarse; spiritual; abominable; inventive; exalted; mechanical; mortuary; histrionic; indifferent; vicious; living; coactive; quaint; empirical; irregular; incomprehensible; demoniacal; jealous; new-invented; loftier; orthodox commercial; medical; ceramic; unhallowed athletic; subservient; florid; classic; exquisite; practical; perishable; spontaneous immature; elevated;  patented;  etched menial; poor; low; voluptuous; illustrative unlawful; rare; piquant; conspicuous.

Verbs for Art
animate—; apply—; appreciate—; attain—;awaken—; become—; breed—; caricaturize—; characterize—; choke—; compose—;comprehend—; conceive—; contrive by—;counterfeit—; cultivate—; dabble in—; deem—; devise—; devote to—; discriminate —; display—; educate in—; elaborate—;embellish—; encourage—; etch—; evolve—;exaggerate—; execute—; exercise—; facilitate—; further—; glorify—; illustrate— imitate—; inaugurate—; influence—; interpret—; limit—; master—; murder—; originate—; ply—; practise—; preserve—; produce—;   purge—;   pursue—;   refine—;school in—; stifle—; supplement—; sustain—; systematize—; take refuge in—; trace— verse in—; wed to—; —achieves; —assists —attains; —builds; —conceals; —depicts—derives from; —dies away; —disguises—embodies; —enlightens; —evolves from—excites; —expresses; —feigns; —flourish¬es; —functions; —imitates; —lags; —languishes; —ornaments; —portrays; —reflects; —remains; reproduces; —reveals.

Thesaurus
abstract expressionism; abstractionism; academic discipline; academic specialty; action painting; acuteness; address; adroitness; alphabet; applied science; area; arena; art nouveau; art schools; artful dodge; artfulness; artifice; artistic skill; artistry; arty-craftiness; astuteness; baroque; blind; blueprint; business; cageyness; callidity; calling; canniness; capability; career; career building; careerism; charactering; characterization; chart; chicanery; choreography; classicalism; classicism; cleverness; cloisonnism; competence; conceptual art; concern; conspiracy; constructivism; contrivance; conventional representation; conventionalism; coup; craft; craftiness; cubism; cunning; cunningness; cute trick; dance notation; deceit; delineation; demonstration; department of knowledge; depiction; depictment; design; device; dexterity; diagram; discipline; dodge; domain; drama; drawing; earth art; eclectic; elementarism; exemplification; existentialism; expedient; expertise; expressionism; fakement; feel; feint; fetch; field; field of inquiry; field of study; figuration; fine Italian hand; finesse; flair; foxiness; free abstraction; futurism; gambit; game; gamesmanship; gimmick; grift; groups; guile; hallucinatory painting; handicraft; handiness; hang; hieroglyphic; iconography; idealism; ideogram; illustration; imagery; imaging; impressionism; ingeniousness; insidiousness; intimism; intrigue; intuitionism; inventiveness; jugglery; kinetic art; knack; knavery; know-how; letter; lifework; limning; line; line of business; line of work; linear chromatism; little game; logogram; logograph; maneuver; map; matter painting; mechanics; mechanism; method; metier; minimal art; mission; modernism; move; musical notation; mystery; mysticism; natural science; naturalism; neoclassicism; neoconcrete art; neoconstructivism; nonobjectivism; notation; nuagism; number; occupation; ology; one-upmanship; op art; photomontage; pictogram; picturization; plan; plein-air; plot; ploy; poetic realism; poetic tachism; pointillism; portraiture; portrayal; postexpressionism; practice; prefigurement; preimpressionism; presentment; primitivism; printing; profession; proficiency; projection; province; pure science; purism; pursuit; quietistic painting; racket; readiness; realism; realization; red herring; rendering; rendition; representation; representationalism; representationism; resourcefulness; romanticism; ruse; satanic cunning; savvy; schema; scheme; science; score; script; sharpness; shift; shiftiness; shrewdness; skill; sleight; slipperiness; slyness; sneakiness; social science; sophistry; specialization; specialty; sphere; stealth; stealthiness; stratagem; strategy; study; subterfuge; subtilty; subtleness; subtlety; suppleness; suprematism; surrealism; syllabary; symbol; symbolism; synchromism; synthesism; tablature; tachism; tactic; talent; technic; technical know-how; technical knowledge; technical skill; technicology; technics; technique; technology; touch; trade; traditionalism; trick; trickery; trickiness; unism; virtu; vocation; vorticism; walk; walk of life; wariness; way; wile; wiles; wiliness; wily device; wit; work; writing

Etymology 1
art from art from  artem, accusative of ars "art". Displaced native Middle English liste "art" (from Old English list).

Synonyms

 * (Human effort): creation, grandeur, wonder

Antonyms

 * (Human effort): mundacity, nature, subsistence