art whore

Someone who paints or creates any artistic work solely to please a Buyer. This term need not be gender specific.

He painted only meaningless Abstracts as such things found ready Buyers. He had become an art whore.

by Shobha Nagendran July 5, 2006

art pamphlet

British euphemism for a pornographic magazine. See also jazz mag.

Derek, have you seen my art pamphlets around anywhere, I really fancy a hand shandy.

by Dan Fox August 21, 2003

Art Crawl

A community event involving displays / sales of artwork across a community's downtown

Time to take a cultural stroll... it's time for Art Crawl

by America Lover 🇺🇸 December 11, 2018

art fag

n.1) an art student fully immersed in the art school culture, i.e. dressing in all-black or the trendiest rummage sale attire, listening to music only played on college radio, and referring to obscure artists or writers constantly

2) one who uses "artistic" to explain dubious decisions or behaviors

That art fag welded a high-heel to an umbrella and ran around the Village all day in the rain.

by BrightApollo March 7, 2003

Art Fag

A pretentious art student (usually in college) who listens to nothing but obscure indie and art rock bands (besides Death Cab, Radiohead, Interpol, The Strokes, Belle and Sebsastian, and Sonic Youth). They wear black-rimmed square glasses, a track jacket with stripes on the side, tight corduroy pants that are ripped, Chuck Taylors or Vans, man purses (even the girls), and some sort of hair farming technique (on black people, it's an afro with dreads).

Half of our Intro to Art class is filled with art fags.

by oliver b January 1, 2007

art college

College devoted to the arts- and the general study of subjects such as fine art, graphic design, illustration, textiles, 3d/games design, philosophy, music etcetera. Art college is a surreal haven for artistically diverse folk, recreational drug users and enthusiasts, spontaneous philosophical discussion during lectures, and those wishing to escape the task of repeating what is esentially another two years of high school condensed into a standard college semester. Art college is unique- nothing more, nothing less. There is nothing more commonplace at an art college than to be unique or different, and there is a decreased tendency to discriminate against diverse or eccentric students, as most possess a creative streak of artistically inclined traits or attributes. Those who don't, will sure enough have some by the time they leave. Because of their nature art colleges have a high leniancy and acceptance towards creativity, artistic pursuits, and not to forget- the drugs. A good majority, if not a vast majority of all art students have tried a recreational substance (me included :), mainly those of the hallucinogen/psychedelic category. Although this is not always the case, drug use or enthusiasm is fairly commonplace at art college, if not a potential rite of passage. Saying this however- not everyone have taken substances. There are those who do, have done, aspire to, or simply haven't. The bottom line is, expect someone you meet there to have done something (lord knows I have :P).
Those who enter art college usually leave with an increased passion for artistic pursuits or careers, awareness of the finer things in life, and generally value the time they studied there. The best darn college there is- no contest :)

If you ever need an excuse to- consume copius amounts of recreational drugs :), pursue a more interesting and artistic career direction, or simply meet loads of great people who won't chastise you for being different... then go to art college- you wont regret it ;)

by Firelovesugar February 8, 2009

art bum

A person who is on the edge of doing art work, be it writing, acting, playing music or what have you. Although this person thinks about being artsy and doing art all the time, he or she rarely does it.

That art bum thinks he'll be the next picasso, but all he does is daydream.

by Mark Ge July 6, 2005