| 单词 | beaux arts |
| 释义 | ‖ beaux arts|bozar|
Also beaux-arts.
[Fr. beaux-arts.]
The fine arts. Also used ellipt. for the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; freq. attrib., of the standards of architecture and art maintained by the École in France in the nineteenth century and early part of the twentieth century and imitated elsewhere, characterized by the influence of older styles and a reliance on decorative and period design.
1821M. Wilmot Jrnl. 26 Oct. (1935) 134 Went to the top of the tower to see the view of all Venice... Next the Academy of beaux arts. 1833J. S. Mill Let. 5 Sept. in Wks. (1963) XII. 177 The beaux-arts (what beaux-arts!) which had been the glory of the siècle de Louis 14. 1854Thoreau Walden 52 So are made the belles-lettres and the beaux-arts and their professors. 1924Arts & Decoration July 10/1 The French or Beaux Arts method of developing the finished drawing, or ‘project’ on a competition is followed by the Institute [sc. Beaux-Arts Institute of Design, N.Y.]. 1931tr. Willy & Colette's Claudine in Paris xi. 17 He's at the Beaux Arts and he's going to be a great artist. 1945Encycl. Brit. II. 273/1 The largest school of architecture in England is that of the Architectural Association and the next largest that of Liverpool university. Both these schools show definite tendencies away from the Beaux Arts influence and towards contemporary architecture, period design having been dropped almost entirely. 1956K. Clark Nude ix. 351 The classic nude with its exhausted beaux-arts associations. 1961Listener 10 Aug. 201/2 He [sc. the architect] has failed to make proper use of technology, and is perpetuating beaux arts attitudes to design. 1967E. Wymark As Good as Gold xv. 219, I left the Beaux Arts and went back to New York. |
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