Definitions for Beaux-Arts

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Beaux-Arts Beaux-Arts

Spelling: [boh-zahr; French boh-zar

IPA: /boʊˈzɑr; French boʊˈzar/

Beaux-Arts is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 400 anagrams from letters in Beaux-Arts (-aaberstux).

Definitions for Beaux-Arts

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to a style of architecture, popularly associated with the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, that prevailed in France in the late 19th century and that was adopted in the U.S. and elsewhere c1900, characterized by the free and eclectic use and adaptation of French architectural features of the 16th through 18th centuries combined so as to give a massive, elaborate, and often ostentatious effect, and also by the use of symmetrical plans preferably allowing vast amounts of interior space.
2. resembling the architecture, architectural precepts, or teaching methods of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris: often used in a pejorative sense to designate excessive formalism disregarding considerations of structural truth, advanced aesthetic theory, rational planning, or economy.

plural noun

1. (lowercase) the fine arts, as painting or music.

Origin of Beaux-Arts

First recorded in 1815-25

Examples for Beaux-Arts

His life so fitted for pleasure and the Beaux-Arts became a combat which never ceased.

He took part in a competition for admission to the Beaux-Arts, and failed.

But the affection of the students of the Beaux-Arts for their masters, their fellow students and the institution is very genuine.

Drawing had been his first devotion, but he shifts to photography when he enters the Beaux-Arts de Paris.

This is according to M. Rivet's report on the Beaux-Arts in 1906.

The whole property was taken over later by the Beaux-Arts under State protection for conservation.

He escaped early from the cole des Beaux-Arts, and, of course, came under the influence of Courbet.

Until then the house had been temporarily under the direction of the Beaux-Arts.

So are made the belles-lettres and the Beaux-Arts and their professors.

In his opinion, it would have been more suitable to exhibit such works in a bar-room than at the Beaux-Arts.