Category: ArtsPart of speech: nounDifficulty: Common

art

/art/Roman

English meaning: Art

Definition

Creative human expression through visual or performing forms. Paris is the world's art capital with the Louvre (world's most visited museum), Musée d'Orsay, Centre Pompidou, and Musée de l'Orangerie. French Impressionism (Monet, Renoir, Degas) revolutionized modern art. French cinema has produced masterpieces from the New Wave to contemporary films.

Example

Le Louvre à Paris est le musée le plus visité au monde.

In English: The Louvre in Paris is the world's most visited museum.

Literary Heritage

La beauté est toujours bizarre.

Beauty is always strange.

Charles Baudelaire · Poet · 19th century

Les Fleurs du Mal

Baudelaire, 'Exposition universelle' (1855), essay; concept elaborated throughout Les Fleurs du Mal (1857)

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