Crossword clues for artsy
artsy
- Showy and pretentious
- Showily pretentious
- More suitable for a film festival than the local multiplex, say
- Like some craft shows
- Like a creative type
- Excessively charming
- With cultural pretensions
- With a flair for the melodramatic
- Too charming
- Speciously highbrow
- Pretentiously sophisticated
- Pretentious and highfalutin
- Like the Taos community
- Like the museum crowd
- Like the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan
- Like Taos, say
- Like some self-appointed critics
- Like some gallery gasbags
- Like pretentious museumgoers
- Like pretentious gallery-goers
- Like museum crowds
- Like many theater kids
- Like many black light theater productions
- Like a trendy cafe
- Imitative of the great masters
- Highly affected
- Highfalutin, culturally
- Equally influenced right now by Nam June Paik's video work and Bedouin poetry, say
- Creatively pretentious
- Avant-garde album
- Affectedly abstract
- ''Craftsy'' go-with
- -- -craftsy
- __-craftsy (pretentious)
- ___ craftsy
- Cloyingly charming
- Pretentiously showy
- Affectedly creative
- Like craft shows
- Bohemian
- Dilettantish
- Pretentious, as a display
- ___-craftsy
- Too-too boho
- Museum-loving
- Pretentious and showy
- Trying to look cultured
- Like craft fairs
- Like many young Brooklynites, stereotypically
- Having painterish pretensions
- Karate instructor
- Like many indie films
- Affectedly cultured
- Like craft shops, typically
- Creative, in a way
- Part sympathetic part pretentious
- Culturally pretentious
- Pretentiously cultured
- Pretentiously bohemian
- Like some indie films
- Like many student films
- Pretentiously creative
- Like Montmartre
- Pretentious, in a way
- Affectedly highbrow
- Quirkily creative
- Pretentiously highbrow
- Pretentiously designed
- Affected, in a way
- Word with craftsy
The Collaborative International Dictionary
artsy \artsy\ adj.
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same as arty.
Syn: arty.
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same as artsy-craftsy.
Syn: artsy-craftsy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"pretentiously artistic," 1902, from arts (see art (n.)); originally especially artsy-craftsy, with reference to the arts and crafts movement; always more or less dismissive or pejorative; artsy-fartsy was in use by 1971.
Wiktionary
a. (context sometimes derogatory English) Inclined towards the arts; arty.
Wikipedia
Artsy is a free online platform designed to connect users to art. Artsy's search engine and database draw connections and map relationships among works of art. Led by Carter Cleveland, computer science graduate from Princeton and Sebastian Cwilich, former executive of Christie's and Haunch of Venison director. Artsy aims “to make all the world’s art accessible to anyone with an internet connection."
Artsy is backed by a group of investors, including Eric Schmidt, Wendi Murdoch, Dasha Zhukova, Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, Peter Thiel, Jack Dorsey, Jim Breyer, Keith Rabois, David Tisch, Chris Dixon, Charlie Cheever, Dave Morin, and David Kidder. John Elderfield, former chief curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art serves as Artsy’s senior advisor and Larry Gagosian and Marc Glimcher, president of Pace Gallery, are advisors.
Usage examples of "artsy".
An artsy sax player sporting a little silver goatee squeezed his eyes shut in ecstasy, leaning into his spotlight serenade.
She looked slowly around the room, passing over artsy types and business types until her eye found a man who was a combination of both.
Or was it his artsy friend, Philippe, in one of those tongue-in-cheek, swaggering monologues of his?
Boy ascribed a low coefficient of irritant potential to Miss Stern, regarding her as a typical young American intellectual woman seeking a cause to justify her existence, until marriage, career, or artsy hobbies defused her.
Cineplexes show movies from cartoons to chick flicks to action films to artsy dramas.
Family portraits, artsy shots of nude men and women, even several examples of family pets.
A photographer stood three feet back from the wall, killing time taking artsy shots of the hands.
Ryan was moving again, running past the back-street shops, the once-Victorian houses that now had artsy paint jobs and craftsy signs.
I got up and walked to one of the artsy framed photographs on the wall.
Ryan was moving again, running past the back-street shops, the once-Victorian houses that now had artsy paint jobs and craftsy signs.
As the initial funders had died off and the enthusiasm of the dedicated artsy money had waned and endowment had been sought in more down-to-earth quarters, the curricular emphasis had switched to other arenas.
What lives in folk memory is truer than how some artsy poet says it.
You may think of the theater as being sophisticated and artsy, but our roots are in traveling troupes that were closer to carnivals and snake-oil shows than any black-tie opening night.
In the past decade, my employers have included three carnivals, four roadside peep shows, two direct-to-video horror movie producers, and an artsy off-Broadway troupe bent on reviving Le Grand Guignol.