Example sentences of "the arts " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was equally at home in the Metropolitan Museum and the Museum of Modern Art , keen in discerning what was good in the arts of many ages and styles . |
| 2 | In his review for the Salon of 1846 , Baudelaire wrote : ‘ To say Romanticism is to say modern art — that is spirituality , colour , aspiration towards the infinite , expressed by every means available to the arts . ’ |
| 3 | He believed that Paris was seeing a forward surge in the arts . |
| 4 | Extensive records enable us to visit what André Malraux called a Musée imaginaire , in which the arts of many cultures and civilisations can be compared . |
| 5 | We have already mentioned in passing the state policies regarding the arts in Germany , the USSR and China ; there have been writers who followed the party lines by giving attention to those artists favoured by patronage , while neglecting others . |
| 6 | Their strengths are rather in clearing the ground of preconceived ideas about the arts , and putting new points of view . |
| 7 | Oh , geniuses inspired in all the arts , who draw from things only such elements of them as are to be shown to the mind ! |
| 8 | The versatile artist raises the question of relationship between the arts , and how far they can be considered to have the same or similar aims . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century it was Richard Wagner whose extraordinary ambition it was to make a complete artistic environment , in which the arts would blend . |
| 10 | Critics no less than artists have wide interests in the arts , and may introduce comparisons in their interpretations . |
| 11 | Such articles may not start with art ; as Rudolf Arnheim said about his book , Art and Visual Perception , he applied principles of visual perception to examples taken from the arts . |
| 12 | A more political theme for an article is the issue of subsidies for the arts . |
| 13 | The National Endowment for the Arts in the United States has been under heavy fire for its choices , as is usual for Ministries , whether in nineteenth-century France or the present-day USSR . |
| 14 | These mistakes mattered — whereas ‘ in the arts it does n't matter if you foul up . ’ |
| 15 | The object of this rather clumsy piece of administration is to place some check on the expenditure of local money on the arts — and also to provide a further checkpoint on students who have already received educational grants for other careers . |
| 16 | And this is true of all training in the arts because nobody — no tutor , no establishment , however excellent , can finally lay down rules . |
| 17 | The ball is not with the union or the performer but with those who fund the Arts . |
| 18 | No doubt they mean well where the arts are concerned , he wrote , but for that reason they are the biggest menace . |
| 19 | The Arts Council should be abolished , he wrote . |
| 20 | The Festival also plays a role in the artistic renaissance of Birmingham , a profile confirmed by the continuing success of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra , under its Artistic Director , Simon Rattle , the recent move of both the Birmingham Royal Ballet ( formerly Sadler 's Wells Royal Ballet ) and the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company to Birmingham , the newly launched ‘ Towards The Millennium ’ annual arts Festival and the Arts Council of Great Britain 's invitation to Birmingham to launch Arts 2000 , as the UK City of Music in 1992 . |
| 21 | After returning from a 30 month tour with UB40 , I believe that Birmingham is establishing itself as Europe 's leading city of the arts and media . |
| 22 | Festivals are one of the few opportunities in the UK for screening short films , and we will be presenting not just this year 's BFI New Directors shorts , but also programmes of short films from film schools in the UK and Canada , from the Arts Council funded schemes and films funded by the filmmakers themselves . |
| 23 | Raymond Williams ( 1921–1988 ) described himself as ‘ Welsh European ’ , novelist ( BORDER COUNTRY , SECOND GENERATION , THE VOLUNTEERS ) and dramatist ; founder of the New Left and later active in the Socialist Society ; a lifelong commentator on culture , media , the arts and contemporary affairs ( eg. THE LONG REVOLUTION , CULTURE AND SOCIETY , COMMUNICATIONS , TOWARDS THE YEAR 2000 ) . |
| 24 | Screenings of recent work from a variety of schemes funded by the Artists Film and Video Committee at the Arts Council . |
| 25 | The Arts Council presents an exciting programme of new work at this year 's festival . |
| 26 | The day after tomorrow she was actually going to be with Lucy at a conference on ecology and the arts . |
| 27 | She drifted from one conversation to another : Jamie and Francis in the Max Miller blue corner , Marina as audience , Dionne and Lucy in the Arts ring . |
| 28 | The hook was an exhibition they could work on together , a definitive work on pollution and the arts , the environment and how artists respond to it . |
| 29 | I gather you 're a leading light in the arts — these are mine for my sins . ’ |
| 30 | Such behaviour did not recommended itself to another , more discreet , influence on Leonard during those undergraduate years : Professor F.R. Scott , later Dean of the Faculty of Law , presently , while Leonard swithered and swayed as to whether he should commit himself to the arts or commerce , his lecturer in law . |