beaux arts
美术,美丽的艺术,美术品,美术馆
Definitions
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- : noting or pertaining to a style of architecture, popularly associated with the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, that prevailed in France in the late 19th century and that was adopted in the U.S. and elsewhere c1900, characterized by the free and eclectic use and adaptation of French architectural features of the 16th through 18th centuries combined so as to give a massive, elaborate, and often ostentatious effect, and also by the use of symmetrical plans preferably allowing vast amounts of interior space.
- : resembling the architecture, architectural precepts, or teaching methods of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris: often used in a pejorative sense to designate excessive formalism disregarding considerations of structural truth, advanced aesthetic theory, rational planning, or economy.
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- : the fine arts, as painting or music.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
“I never felt that culture and the arts were separate from politics,” he says.
Later, he transferred to the School of Visual Arts in New York City after developing an interest in filmmaking.
Its reporting and commentary on politics, society, and arts and letters have nurtured a broad liberal spirit in our national life.
She attended a multicultural performing arts school and swam competitively.
As a former arts teacher, she feels compelled to help the now-hysterical young boy.
The first commencement of Union College for conferring degrees in the arts and sciences.
In the front rank of the railway service I do not remember many beaux.
Belle Ringold was very shrewd, young as she was, in the arts of gaining and holding the attention of young men.
Among the ancients, the tools which served in the arts were few in number, and these of exceeding simplicity.
He served as physician, as well as priest and school-master, and practised and taught the most useful domestic arts.