单词 | high art |
释义 | > as lemmashigh art high art n. (and adj.) highly refined or sophisticated art; also occasionally as adj. ΚΠ 1794 European Mag. & London Rev. Apr. 286/2 A great foreign artist, on coming into this country, said, that had he only heard Sir Joshua's last discourse in praise of Michael Angelo, and seen that great national ornament Somerset-House, he should have been sure that the English Nation were far advanced in high art. 1848 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 11 Feb. (1954) I. 247 I cannot recognize the truth of all that is said about the necessity of religious fervour to high art. 1856 C. Kingsley Plays & Puritans 31 They railed in their ignorance..at high art and all art. 1883 ‘V. Lee’ in P. Gunn Vernon Lee (1964) vii. 88 A long pseudo-medieval ballad... It felt so completely high art. 1906 E. Garnett in D. Defoe Capt. Singleton p. viii Rembrandt's choice of beggars..for his favourite subjects seemed a low and reprehensible taste in ‘high art’. 1964 S. Hall & P. Whannel Pop. Arts i. ii. 55 These popular arts..were not objects of contemplation like the works of high art, but communal artifacts. 2010 Time Out N.Y. 20 May 53/2 With their hollow, zombie eyes, quizzical semi squints and fingerlike ropes of flesh on their faces, the figures float between life and death, pop culture and high art. < as lemmas |
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