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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

forma d'arte

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ˈfɔr.ma ˈdar.te

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Kunstform/ˈkʊnst.fɔʁm/
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"La fotografia è una forma d'arte affascinante."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An artistic genre, style, or medium that is deliberately artificial, highly stylized, or conventionalized.

    "Opera is a complex Kunstform that combines music, drama, and visual design."
  2. 2

    A biological organism or structure displaying such symmetry and intricacy that it resembles a work of art.

    "Ernst Haeckel documented numerous microscopic radiolarians as stunning natural examples of Kunstform."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the German words 'Kunst' (art) and 'Form' (form, shape). Historically established in nineteenth-century German art and biological discourse—most notably popularized by Ernst Haeckel's 'Kunstformen der Natur' (1904)—to describe natural or artificial structures possessing striking artistic design.

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