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Work of art

noun

Art that is a product of one of the fine arts (especially a painting or sculpture of artistic merit).

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"Work of art" Quotes from Famous Books

... details of visual observation in art is liable eventually to obscure the main idea and disturb the large sense of design on which so much of the imaginative appeal of a work of art depends. The large amount of new visual knowledge that the naturalistic movements of the nineteenth century brought to light is particularly liable at this time to obscure the simpler and more primitive qualities on which all good art is built. At the height of that movement line drawing went ...

— The Practice and Science Of Drawing • Harold Speed

... know how much that bust cost me? . . . Fifteen thousand francs. I got it from Balzac, who owed me a great deal of money. Once when I was at his house in Passy, he exclaimed: 'Since I can't pay you, take what you like from here to reimburse yourself.'" This work of art, a Louis XVI. gilt-bronze time piece, with its two candelabra, once also in Balzac's possession, was part payment of the balance due to the de Berny family, and was surrendered only in ...

— Balzac • Frederick Lawton

... work of art, "The Scarlet Letter" is perhaps not so excellent as the author's subsequent books. It may not unjustly be called a novel without a plot, so far as this touches the adroit succession of incidents and the ...

— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop

... will find abundance of interesting and amusing information in the volume. As a work of art, it possesses very ...

— The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition • Anonymous

... wooden shield, on which was painted a heart transfixed by a dart, a device better suited to his taste and comprehension. In the subsequent troubles of Milan, Leonardo's picture disappeared, and was probably destroyed as an object of horror by those who did not understand its value as a work of art. ...

— Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 (of 8) • Various

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