art form
Americannoun
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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.
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a medium for artistic expression.
ballet, sculpture, opera, and other art forms.
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a medium other than the artistic regarded as having highly developed or systematized rules, procedures, or formulations.
international diplomacy regarded as an art form.
noun
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a conventionally established form of artistic composition, such as the symphony or the sonnet
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a recognized medium of artistic expression
Etymology
Origin of art form
First recorded in 1865–70
Example Sentences
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Kabuki is presented as an art form of balletic skill, but it can never fully redeem or repair the film’s central figures, who once were friends before ambition got in the way.
From Los Angeles Times
As music “that transcended enmities to forge a connection between all the people born of this land,” Vargas Llosa writes, channeling Toño’s enthusiasm, the vals is the exemplary art form of a “mongrel nation.”
“We have to protect it or else we lose the art form.”
From Los Angeles Times
He also gave the actor a history lesson about what the art form would have been like in Mozart’s time.
From Los Angeles Times
He elevated the dunk to an art form at a time when it was banned in the college game.
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