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art school

art school

38 2.7
A school where people learn to make art like painting or sculpture
  • noun
  • /ɑrt skul/
translation icon : escuela de arte
  • She enrolled in an art school to pursue her passion for painting.
  • graduate from art school
  • art school training
  • art schools and universities

Loads of people in art schools have dyslexia.

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Examples

  • Woodley is the best art school in the country.

  • I studied architecture in art school and I worked in some architecture firms for a number of years.

  • Go research the art school you want to apply to.

  • I sent him to art school, but he quit.

  • I wanted to go to art school.

  • It's a top art school.

  • Three years ago, I was in art school in Chicago, learning to paint.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • She went to art school?

  • Nancy, you're going to art school.

  • In Woolfe's family, both brothers attended Cambridge and her sister was sent to art school.

    Academic text (1995)

Synonyms

academy
vsart school
109 3.3

A school for special training in one subject, like art or music

focuses only on visual creative subjects such as painting sculpture and design

How Formal

conservatory
19 5.8
art school
38 2.7
art class
27 1.0
workshop
175 3.3

Surface Forms

art school singular
art schools plural

Morphology

art + school

The meaning 'a school where students study the visual arts' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'art' (visual/creative practice) with 'school' (an educational institution). This modifier+head compound follows a common and predictable noun-noun composition found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will understand it.

Etymology

The compound noun art school is a literal name: a school for art, where students learn painting, sculpture, and design. So, art school means 'a place where people learn art'.