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art shaming

the act of undervaluing certain art-related careers and work (in contrast to careers that seem more "important" to society like the sciences) while at the same time trying to seem cultured in the arts and abusing its pleasures. One example would be a person who refuses to pay an artist or designer the full amount for their work and then goes to art museums to give his or her life value and meaning. Basically any action that makes derogatory comments on the significance of art and does not understand that 'artwork is work' falls under this category. This can often result in the artist feeling used and then completely rejected of any value to society.
Person 1: Man, I'm really interested in a career in children's book illustration.

Person 2: Isn't it crazy how children's book illustrators get paid so much for something so simple and yet engineers make all these calculation for yada yada yada?

Person 1: Wtf. That's totally art shaming!
by banksy1 November 20, 2013
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art student

well it shows how foolish most of you are. art school is for creative people, yes. but it is not just for people who want to be actual artists, in fact that they make up a small percentage. mostly it students who want to do something different, and want to have a career that they are actually happy with. such as illustration, game and movie design, fashion, industrial design, photography, and a lot more. and it is far from easy. they just dont want to be zombies waking up with the same dead end job, day in and day out, wishing they had done something more with their lives.
art student wants to put there natural born talent to work, instead of wasting it
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Art Vandelay

The name George on "Seinfeld" always referred himself to in attempting to pick up women. Mr. Vandelay's occupation is always an architect.
"My name is Art Vandelay, I am an architect."
by phugger March 17, 2003
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Art porn

A type of porn that in addition to being hot and sexy is also meant to be a work of art. That is, it is made to be beautiful and to have artistic meaning.
by The Fury 13 October 28, 2010
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Art Center College of Design

The best design school in Southern California, along with Cal Arts. Better than Otis. Don't mention FIDM. Also as known just as the Art Center. It has one of the best transportation design programs in the world.
I go to Art Center College of Design
by ilikeapplesyeah January 26, 2012
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Art d'Echo

imitating/echoing the styles, fashions, architecture, slang, etc. of the 1920s-1930s era, otherwise known as the Art Deco period.
Only certain people can pull off the Art D'echo look with their modernized flapper dresses, bobbed hair or fedoras.

The "gangsta" look is very Art d'Echo!
by Eilouenne March 27, 2008
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art fag

a person who smokes, drinks $4 coffee and visits art museums and talks about the art expressing the descent and selling out of America to capitalists and other four syllable words but they are huge ass hypocrits cuz they are selling out too with their goddamn cigarettes and $5 lattes and banana republic peacoats. listen to Dead Milkmen's "you'll dance to anything"
by asshole November 23, 2006
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