graphic arts

plural noun

1. Also called graphics. the arts or techniques, as engraving, etching, drypoint, woodcut, lithography, and other methods, by which copies of an original design are printed from a plate, block, or the like.
2. the arts of drawing, painting, and printmaking.

graphic arts

plural noun

1. any of the fine or applied visual arts based on drawing or the use of line, as opposed to colour or relief, on a plane surface, esp illustration and printmaking of all kinds

Word History and Origins

Origin of graphic arts¹

First recorded in 1660–70

Example Sentences

In Leipzig, Saxony, for example the Kunstgewerbeschule aims at the graphic arts mainly.

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The structural arts, didactic in their manner; the graphic arts, in their matter also.

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The graphic arts have general methods with which we can only become familiar by the use of the rule and compass.

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It has tasked the resources of the plastic and the graphic arts.

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In the graphic arts Englishmen exhibit no feeling for rhythm.

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