a piece of fine art, such as a painting or sculpture something that may be likened to a piece of fine art, esp in beauty, intricacy, etc
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work′ of art′,
- Fine Arta piece of creative work in the arts, esp. a painting or sculpture.
- a product that gives aesthetic pleasure and that can be judged separately from any utilitarian considerations.
- 1825–35
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'work of art' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Greco-Roman
- Last Supper
- abstract
- abstraction
- aesthetic distance
- alien
- altarpiece
- antique
- artefact
- assemblage
- atmosphere
- authority
- beauty
- bronze
- classic
- collage
- colorist
- composition
- construction
- content
- contrast
- create
- criticism
- dateless
- deaccession
- demythologize
- deposition
- depth
- design
- disegno
- empathy
- encaustic
- exercise
- expertise
- forgery
- form
- formal
- frontality
- frottage
- grisaille
- ground
- iconography
- idealism
- inscription
- kitsch
- law
- life
- linear
- little
- magnum opus