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work of art

noun

  1. a piece of creative work in the arts, especially a painting or sculpture.

  2. a product that gives aesthetic pleasure and that can be judged separately from any utilitarian considerations.



work of art

noun

  1. a piece of fine art, such as a painting or sculpture

  2. something that may be likened to a piece of fine art, esp in beauty, intricacy, etc

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of work of art1

First recorded in 1825–35
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Billy Quigley tells the BBC he has "no idea" the steel beams at the end of the Peace bridge were intended to be a work of art.

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Nazi officials, on the other hand, were happy to be compensated for unloading undesirable works of art to foreign collectors.

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He would have been better advised to do what James Ijames did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning play “Fat Ham” — respond to Shakespeare’s classic through a completely autonomous work of art.

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“And so I reread ‘The Crucible,’ which is like the most famous work of art about witch hunts.”

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Fornés believed that a work of art isn’t an equation to be solved but an invitation for wonder, which Aristotle considered the beginning of philosophy.

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