ARTWORK


Meaning of ARTWORK in English

art ‧ work /ˈɑːtwɜːk $ ˈɑːrtwɜːrk/ BrE AmE noun

1 . [uncountable] drawings and photographs that are specially prepared to be in a book, magazine, or advertisement

2 . [uncountable and countable] paintings and other objects produced by artists

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THESAURUS

▪ picture shapes, lines etc painted or drawn on a surface, especially as a piece of art, and often showing what someone or something looks like:

a picture of a horse

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He painted the picture in 1890, just before he died.

▪ drawing a picture drawn with a pencil, pen etc:

We had to do a drawing of a sunflower.

▪ sketch a picture that is drawn quickly:

I made a quick sketch of the kind of room we wanted.

▪ painting a picture made using paint:

The painting now hangs in the Museum of Modern Art.

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Picasso did several paintings of her.

▪ portrait a picture of a person:

The portrait was painted by Rembrandt.

▪ landscape a picture of a place, especially in the countryside or the mountains:

Constable painted mainly landscapes.

▪ cartoon a funny drawing in a newspaper or magazine that tells a story or a joke:

A cartoon in the New York Times showed the President talking to Osama Bin Laden.

▪ comic strip a series of pictures drawn inside boxes that tell a story:

Charles Schultz was famous for his cartoon strip about Snoopy and Charlie Brown.

▪ caricature a funny drawing of someone that makes a part of someone’s face or body look bigger, worse etc than it really is, especially in a funny way:

He is famous for his caricatures of politicans.

▪ illustration a picture in a book:

The book has over 100 pages of illustrations, most of them in colour.

▪ poster a large picture printed on paper that you stick to a wall as decoration:

old movie posters

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There were lots of posters of pop bands on her bedroom wall.

▪ print a picture that is usually produced on a ↑ printing press , and is one of a series of copies of the same picture:

a limited edition of lithographic prints by John Lennon

▪ image a picture – used especially when talking about what the picture is like, or the effect it has on you:

He produced some memorable images.

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a beautiful image

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Some of the images are deeply disturbing.

▪ artwork pictures or photographs, especially ones that have been produced to be used in a book or magazine:

We are still waiting for the artwork to come back from the printers.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English.      Longman - Словарь современного английского языка.