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🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

视觉艺术

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shìjué yìshù

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Visual arts/ˈvɪʒ.u.əl ɑːrts/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"视觉艺术在现代文化中占据重要地位。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    Art forms that are primarily visual in nature, including painting, sculpture, photography, and design.

    "The gallery showcased a diverse range of visual arts, from contemporary paintings to classical sculptures."
  2. 2

    A category of art that includes any art form that is created to be appreciated visually.

    "Students in the visual arts program learn techniques in drawing, painting, and digital media."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines the Late Middle English 'visual', derived from Late Latin 'visualis' (pertaining to sight), and 'art', stemming from Latin 'ars', meaning skill, craft, or method. Historically coalesced in the 19th and 20th centuries to broadly categorize art forms that create works primarily visual in nature, such as painting, photography, and sculpture.

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