art form

noun

the more or less established structure, pattern, or scheme followed in shaping an artistic work:
The sonata, the sonnet, and the novel are all art forms.
a medium for artistic expression:
ballet, sculpture, opera, and other art forms.
a medium other than the artistic regarded as having highly developed or systematized rules, procedures, or formulations:
international diplomacy regarded as an art form.

art form

a conventionally established form of artistic composition, such as the symphony or the sonnet
a recognized medium of artistic expression

First recorded in 1865–70

It took decades for comics to recover and emerge as an adult art form.

Veteran illustrator Howard Brodie was on the case, pioneering the rising art form.

Last year Ellen Page made waves by elevating the celebrity video game cameo to an art form.

He recognized that the paper cut-outs could become an art form in themselves.

He was not only prolific, but also created an entirely new art form with his vivid, cut-out paper works.

But in spite of her popularity, it should never be forgotten that the novel is an art-form, not a medium for doctrinaires.

But to tell truth she has chosen a difficult and dangerous if alluring art form.

The result is, another art-form has to be employed, the Fairy Tale, of which we have already spoken.

If this were so, it were a grievous fault—at any rate in so far as the moving-picture play aims at being an art-form.

They are developing the embryo of what was the arts-and-crafts idea into a really fine, useful and satisfying art form.

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