art form

noun

the more or less established structure, pattern, or scheme followed in shaping an artistic work: The sonata, the sonnet, and the novel are all art forms.

a medium for artistic expression: ballet, sculpture, opera, and other art forms.

a medium other than the artistic regarded as having highly developed or systematized rules, procedures, or formulations: international diplomacy regarded as an art form.

Origin of art form

First recorded in 1865–70

Words nearby art form

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Example sentences from the Web for art form

If this were so, it were a grievous fault—at any rate in so far as the moving-picture play aims at being an art-form.

A Librarian's Open Shelf |Arthur E. Bostwick
It is Gally's concept of the character as an art-form, however, which is most interesting to the modern scholar.

A Critical Essay on Characteristic-Writings |Henry Gally
Besides, being confessedly an art-form, duly licensed to lie, it is apt to be misunderstood.

Prose Fancies |Richard Le Gallienne
The complete establishment of the quartet as an art-form worthy to rank beside the symphony is due to Beethoven.

How Music Developed |W. J. Henderson

The doctrine of the Eternal Recurrence appears for the last time here, in an art-form.

Thus Spake Zarathustra |Friedrich Nietzsche

British Dictionary definitions for art form

art form

noun

a conventionally established form of artistic composition, such as the symphony or the sonnet

a recognized medium of artistic expression

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art form

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