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# art

«art» in Mova's school dictionary: **making pictures, sculptures and other things that are…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (art, arts; an art)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Art is making pictures, sculptures and other things that are beautiful or show ideas and feelings, like painting and drawing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/#m1)

2) Art is also the things made this way, like paintings in a gallery. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/#m2)

3) An art is a skill that takes practice, such as the art of cooking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/#m3)

4) The arts are subjects like music, dance, drama, painting and literature. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

At school, art is a lesson where pupils draw, paint, model clay and learn about artists. In everyday life people see art in galleries, museums and on walls. Phrases: art class, work of art, arts and crafts, art gallery, martial arts.

### examples

- We have art on Tuesday afternoons. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/#x1)
- I painted a sunflower in art class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/#x2)
- The museum has art from all over the world. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/#x3)
- Her drawing is a real work of art. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/#x4)
- We did arts and crafts with paper plates. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/#x5)
- Cooking a perfect pancake is an art. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/#x6)
- Karate is a martial art. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/#x7)
- Cave people made art on rock walls long ago. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/#x8)

### note

Usually uncountable: art (not an art) when you mean the subject or works; countable in an art meaning a skill, and the arts. Person: artist. Adjectives: artistic, arty. Art is not only painting; music, dance and stories are arts too.

### In the corpora

- [An art teacher wants to see your own drawing, wobbly lines and all, not a traced copy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/11-school-rules-honesty-and-wrong-accusations/11/)
- [Some people now suspect any good art might be AI; keeping sketches shows how a picture was made.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/21-news-deepfakes-history/15/)
- [The Renaissance was a period of new learning and art in Europe from around 1400 to 1600.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/16-famous-artists-simply/12/)
- [A label gives the artist, date and material, but you can enjoy art just by looking and asking yourself questions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/17-museums-and-galleries-how-to-visit-and-what-is-there/15/)
- [Whether such paintings are great art is argued: some say they are powerful in real life, others say they are a joke.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/18-modern-art-my-little-brother-could-do-that/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «art» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/art/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.