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art form

n.

An activity or a piece of artistic work that can be regarded as a medium of artistic expression.

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art form

n

1. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a conventionally established form of artistic composition, such as the symphony or the sonnet

2. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Art Terms) a genre or activity viewed or treated as an art form

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

art form - (architecture) a form of artistic expression (such as writing or painting or architecture) kind, sort, form, variety - a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" architectural style, style of architecture, type of architecture - architecture as a kind of art form sonata form - a musical form having 3 sections -- exposition and development and recapitulation; characteristic of 1st movement of a sonata or symphony architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"

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art form

n → (Kunst)gattung or -form f