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• Art direction

  noun the management of the artistic and design elements of a project, esp. in film, television, advertising, or publishing; the work of an art director examples art direction is very important in today’s music videos. word origin 1875 contemporary examples hourani began to dabble with a myriad of artistic careers, from model scouting to styling […]

• Art director

  movies, television. the person who determines the staging requirements for a production and often designs the sets or supervises their building and dressing. also called art editor. a person who is responsible for the selection, execution, production, etc., of graphic art for a publication, advertising agency, or the like. . contemporary examples at work, peggy […]

• Artemus ward

  charles farrer [far-er] /ˈfær ər/ (show ipa), (“artemus ward”) 1834–67, u.s. humorist. sir thomas, 1605–82, english physician and author. (aaron) montgomery, 1843–1913, u.s. merchant and mail-order retailer. artemas [ahr-tuh-muh s] /ˈɑr tə məs/ (show ipa), 1727–1800, american general in the american revolution. artemus [ahr-tuh-muh s] /ˈɑr tə məs/ (show ipa), (charles farrar browne) 1834–67, u.s. […]

• Art for art's sake

  art for art’s sake a slogan meaning that the beauty of the fine arts is reason enough for pursuing them — that art does not have to serve purposes taken from politics, religion, economics, and so on. samuel taylor coleridge, edgar allan poe, and oscar wilde argued for the doctrine of art for art’s sake. […]

• Art form

  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. a medium for artistic expression: ballet, sculpture, opera, and other art forms. a medium other than the artistic regarded as having highly developed or systematized rules, procedures, or formulations: […]

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