Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Work in the graphic or plastic arts, especially small handmade decorative or artistic objects.
  • noun An illustrative and decorative element, such as a line drawing or photograph, used in a printed work, such as a book.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Publishing) photographs, illustrations, or other visual representations other than the text, in a printed publication.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A painting, drawing, sculpture or other piece of creative, visual art
  • noun uncountable Artistic work.
  • noun uncountable, reprographics The graphical elements to be included in a reproduced work.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

art +‎ work.

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Examples

  • Gui, Add, Picture, x12 y10 w60 h60, % artwork% else urldownloadtofile, % artURL%, % tempfile%. jpg artwork = % tempfile%. jpg

    AutoHotkey Community 2009

  • Â I fell in love with it, so I always seek out this unconventional winemaker's bottles not just for the wines, but his label artwork is fabulous.

    Mary Orlin: My Top Ten Wine Moments of 2011 Mary Orlin 2011

  • Â I fell in love with it, so I always seek out this unconventional winemaker's bottles not just for the wines, but his label artwork is fabulous.

    Mary Orlin: My Top Ten Wine Moments of 2011 Mary Orlin 2011

  • Â I fell in love with it, so I always seek out this unconventional winemaker's bottles not just for the wines, but his label artwork is fabulous.

    Mary Orlin: My Top Ten Wine Moments of 2011 Mary Orlin 2011

  • I fell in love with it, so I always seek out this unconventional winemaker's bottles not just for the wines, but his label artwork is fabulous.

    Mary Orlin: My Top Ten Wine Moments of 2011 Mary Orlin 2011

  • I fell in love with it, so I always seek out this unconventional winemaker's bottles not just for the wines, but his label artwork is fabulous.

    Mary Orlin: My Top Ten Wine Moments of 2011 Mary Orlin 2011

  • I fell in love with it, so I always seek out this unconventional winemaker's bottles not just for the wines, but his label artwork is fabulous.

    Mary Orlin: My Top Ten Wine Moments of 2011 Mary Orlin 2011

  • Â I fell in love with it, so I always seek out this unconventional winemaker's bottles not just for the wines, but his label artwork is fabulous.

    Mary Orlin: My Top Ten Wine Moments of 2011 Mary Orlin 2011

  • (While the label artwork looks like Edward Gorey, it's actually Mel Kadel.)

    Benito's Wine Reviews Benito 2008

  • There are only a few sentences on each page, and the artwork is a key to carrying the story forward -- although, in this case, the artwork was done after the text was written, and the text does not actually say anything about what the artwork shows (for example, the artwork includes a cat, but the text says nothing about a cat).

    EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Ken Edgett 2010

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