Also means
skill
Usage Note
Kunst is etymologically linked to können ('to be able'), so it also means a skill or knack — Das ist keine Kunst means 'that's no big deal'. Note the umlauted plural Künste, as in die schönen Künste ('the fine arts').
Examples
"Sie studiert moderne Kunst."
Natural Translation
She studies modern art.
Related Words
- Abguss cast, casting (plaster or metal replica of a sculpture)
- Abstraktion abstraction (non-representational art)
- Acrylfarbe acrylic paint
- Akanthus acanthus (decorative leaf motif)
- Akt nude
- Aktmalerei nude painting; figure painting
- Aktmodell life model; nude model (for drawing or painting)
- Aktzeichnung life drawing, figure drawing (of the nude)
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