Art Picture

–noun

1.	the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

2.	the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.

3.	a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.

4.	the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture.

5.	any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art.

6.	(in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story?

7.	the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling.

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the craft or trade using these principles or methods.

9.	skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.

10.	a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.

11.	arts, a. (used with a singular verb) the humanities: a college of arts and sciences. b. (used with a plural verb) liberal arts.

12.	skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.

13.	trickery; cunning: glib and devious art.

14.	studied action; artificiality in behavior.

15.	an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of politics.

16.	Archaic. science, learning, or scholarship.

–noun

1.	a visual representation of a person, object, or scene, as a painting, drawing, photograph, etc.: I carry a picture of my grandchild in my wallet.

2.	any visible image, however produced: pictures reflected in a pool of water.

3.	a mental image: a clear picture of how he had looked that day.

4.	a particular image or reality as portrayed in an account or description; depiction; version.

5.	a tableau, as in theatrical representation.

6.	motion picture.

7.	pictures, Informal: Older Use. movies.

8.	a person, thing, group, or scene regarded as resembling a work of pictorial art in beauty, fineness of appearance, etc.: She was a picture in her new blue dress.

9.	the image or perfect likeness of someone else: He is the picture of his father.

10.	a visible or concrete embodiment of some quality or condition: the picture of health.

11.	a situation or set of circumstances: the economic picture.

12.	the image on a computer monitor, the viewing screen of a television set, or a motion-picture screen.

–verb (used with object)

13.	to represent in a picture or pictorially, as by painting or drawing.

14.	to form a mental picture of; imagine: He couldn't picture himself doing such a thing.

15.	to depict in words; describe graphically: He pictured Rome so vividly that you half-believed you were there.

16.	to present or create as a setting; portray: His book pictured the world of the future.