artistic creation

Noun
  1. The creation of beautiful or significant things (synset 100935235)
    "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"
    associated with:
    • americana - any artifact (such as books or furniture or art) that is distinctive of America
    • art, fine art - the products of human creativity; works of art collectively
    • ground - (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting
    • talaria - a winged sandal (as worn by Hermes in Graeco-Roman art)
    • vocabulary - the system of techniques or symbols serving as a means of expression (as in arts or crafts)
    • aesthetics, esthetics - (art) the branch of philosophy dealing with beauty and taste (emphasizing the evaluative criteria that are applied to art)
    • celluloid, cinema, film - a medium that disseminates moving pictures
    • expressive style, style - a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period
    • ensemble, tout ensemble - an assemblage of parts or details (as in a work of art) considered as forming a whole
    • exhibition, expo, exposition - a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display
    • appraiser, authenticator - one who determines authenticity (as of works of art) or who guarantees validity
    • idealogue, theoretician, theoriser, theorist, theorizer - someone who theorizes (especially in science or art)
    • tension - a balance between and interplay of opposing elements or tendencies (especially in art or literature)
    • doldrums, stagnancy, stagnation - a state of inactivity (in business or art etc)
    • longueur - a period of dullness or boredom (especially in a work of literature or performing art)
    • finger-paint - apply colors with one's fingers
    • fresco - paint onto wet plaster on a wall
    • distemper - paint with distemper
    • illuminate - add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts)
    • miniate, rubricate - decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red
    • blazon, emblazon - decorate with heraldic arms
    • sculpt, sculpture - create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material
    • paint - make a painting of
    • paint - make a painting
    • repaint - paint again
    • charge - place a heraldic bearing on
    • interpret, represent - create an image or likeness of
    • depict, picture, render, show - show in, or as in, a picture
    • illustrate - depict with an illustration
    • conventionalize, stylise, stylize - represent according to a conventional style
    • depict, limn, portray - make a portrait of
    • portray, present - represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture
    • draw - represent by making a drawing of, as with a pencil, chalk, etc. on a surface
    • charcoal - draw, trace, or represent with charcoal
    • cartoon - draw cartoons of
    • fill in, shade - represent the effect of shade or shadow on
    • stipple - make by small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow, as in paint or ink
    • watercolor, watercolour - paint with watercolors
    • miniate - paint with red lead or vermilion
    • model, mold, mould - form in clay, wax, etc
    • chalk out, sketch - make a sketch of
    • lithograph - make by lithography
    • silkscreen - print by silkscreen
    • stencil - mark or print with a stencil
    • engrave, etch - carve or cut into a block used for printing or print from such a block
    • stipple - engrave by means of dots and flicks
    • etch - make an etching of
    • aquatint - etch in aquatint
    • model, pose, posture, sit - assume a posture as for artistic purposes
    • deaccession - sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works
    • pop, popular - (of music or art) new and of general appeal (especially among young people)
    • cathartic, releasing - emotionally purging (of e.g. art)
    • moderne - of or relating to a popularization of art deco that used bright colors and rectangular shapes
    • nonrepresentational - of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature
    • formalised, formalistic, formalized - concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art)
    is a type of: creation, creative activity - the human act of creating
    subtypes:
    • arts and crafts - the arts of decorative design and handicraft
    • ceramics - the art of making and decorating pottery
    • decalcomania - the art of transfering designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface
    • decoupage - the art of decorating a surface with shapes or pictures and then coating it with varnish or lacquer
    • drafting, draftsmanship, drawing - the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams
    • glyptography - carving or engraving (especially on stones)
    • gastronomy - the art and practice of choosing and preparing and eating good food
    • origami - the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes representing objects (e.g., flowers or birds)
    • painting - creating a picture with paints
    • perfumery - the art of making perfumes
    • printmaking - artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens
    • carving, sculpture - creating figures or designs in three dimensions
    • topiary - making decorative shapes by trimming shrubs or trees
    same as: art, artistic production

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