Art History Concepts

noun creative art, especially visual art, whose products are to be appreciated primarily or solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content.

• The university offers a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree for students interested in pursuing a career in the fine arts.
• My sister is really talented in the fine arts and loves to paint in her free time.
• I'm thinking of taking a class in fine arts next semester, it seems like a cool way to express myself.
• The way she dances is like a form of fine arts, it's so graceful and beautiful to watch.

noun a jointed model of the human body used by artists for studying poses and drapery

• The artist used a lay figure to help with the proportions of the human body in the painting.
• The lay figure made it easier for the artist to sketch out the figure before painting it.
• I heard the artist's lay figure got damaged during the move.
• The lay figure in the story represented the inner struggles of the main character.

noun Actaeon can also refer to a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family.

• Actaeon was a famous figure in Greek mythology who was turned into a stag by the goddess Artemis.
• Have you heard the story of Actaeon and how he was transformed into a deer?
• Actaeon got totally deer-ed by Artemis in that myth.
• Being caught snooping through someone's personal belongings is like pulling an Actaeon.