Art vs. Polychromy — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Art and Polychromy
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Art
Art is a diverse range of (and products of) human activities involving creative imagination to express technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas.There is no generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and ideas have changed over time. The three classical branches of visual art are painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Polychromy
The use of many colors in decoration, especially in architecture and sculpture.
Art
The conscious use of the imagination in the production of objects intended to be contemplated or appreciated as beautiful, as in the arrangement of forms, sounds, or words.
Polychromy
Polychrome painting
Art
Such activity in the visual or plastic arts
Takes classes in art at the college.
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Polychromy
The painting of statues etc.
Art
Products of this activity; imaginative works considered as a group
Art on display in the lobby.
Polychromy
The art or practice of combining different colors, especially brilliant ones, in an artistic way.
Art
A field or category of art, such as music, ballet, or literature.
Art
A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
Art
A skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation
The art of negotiation.
Art
Arts Artful devices, stratagems, and tricks.
Art
Artful contrivance; cunning.
Art
(Printing) Illustrative material, especially in contrast to text.
Art
A second person singular present indicative of be.
Art
(uncountable) The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the senses and emotions, usually specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
There is a debate as to whether graffiti is art or vandalism.
Art
(uncountable) The creative and emotional expression of mental imagery, such as visual, auditory, social, etc.
Art
(countable) Skillful creative activity, usually with an aesthetic focus.
She's mastered the art of programming.
Art
(uncountable) The study and the product of these processes.
He's at university to study art.
Art
(uncountable) Aesthetic value.
Her photographs are nice, but there's no art in them.
Art
(uncountable) Artwork.
Sotheby's regularly auctions art for millions.
Art collection
Art
(countable) A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.
I'm a great supporter of the arts.
Art
(countable) A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.
Art
(countable) Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.
Art
Contrivance, scheming, manipulation.
Art
The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the ending -t, as in thou shalt, wilt, orig. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.
Art
The employment of means to accomplish some desired end; the adaptation of things in the natural world to the uses of life; the application of knowledge or power to practical purposes.
Blest with each grace of nature and of art.
Art
A system of rules serving to facilitate the performance of certain actions; a system of principles and rules for attaining a desired end; method of doing well some special work; - often contradistinguished from science or speculative principles; as, the art of building or engraving; the art of war; the art of navigation.
Science is systematized knowledge . . . Art is knowledge made efficient by skill.
Art
The systematic application of knowledge or skill in effecting a desired result. Also, an occupation or business requiring such knowledge or skill.
The fishermen can't employ their art with so much success in so troubled a sea.
Art
The application of skill to the production of the beautiful by imitation or design, or an occupation in which skill is so employed, as in painting and sculpture; one of the fine arts; as, he prefers art to literature.
Art
Those branches of learning which are taught in the academical course of colleges; as, master of arts.
In fearless youth we tempt the heights of arts.
Four years spent in the arts (as they are called in colleges) is, perhaps, laying too laborious a foundation.
Art
Learning; study; applied knowledge, science, or letters.
So vast is art, so narrow human wit.
Art
Skill, dexterity, or the power of performing certain actions, acquired by experience, study, or observation; knack; as, a man has the art of managing his business to advantage.
Art
Skillful plan; device.
They employed every art to soothe . . . the discontented warriors.
Art
Cunning; artifice; craft.
Madam, I swear I use no art at all.
Animals practice art when opposed to their superiors in strength.
Art
The black art; magic.
In America, literature and the elegant arts must grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily necessity.
Art
The products of human creativity; works of art collectively;
An art exhibition
A fine collection of art
Art
The creation of beautiful or significant things;
Art does not need to be innovative to be good
I was never any good at art
He said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully
Art
A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation;
The art of conversation
It's quite an art
Art
Photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication;
The publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book
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