The phrase "art classics" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to well-known and highly regarded works of art that have stood the test of time.
Example: "The museum's collection includes several art classics that are essential for understanding the evolution of artistic styles."
Alternatives: "masterpieces of art" or "timeless artworks".
Related degrees: History, anthropology, biological sciences, history of art, classics.
Assembled over 35 years, the Strauses' collection contains many acknowledged contemporary art classics.
But today's babies and toddlers are treated to board books that are miniature works of literary art: classics like "Romeo and Juliet," "Sense and Sensibility" and "Les Misérables"; luxuriously produced counting primers with complex graphic elements; and even an "Art for Baby" book featuring images by the contemporary artists Damien Hirst and Paul Morrison.
It's less easy to say exactly what's pleasing about the more complex art classics.
It's been over two years since the glory days of #emojiarthistory, when the art world banded together to adapt art classics into emojis using the options available.
Instead of delving into some drab real estate as a fixer upper, she sets her attention on the iconic, and very white, canon of art classics.
Carolingian art, classic style produced during the reign of Charlemagne (768 814) and thereafter until the late 9th century.
And in so doing, they uncorked intimate details about the Pirros' private lives and spending habits on airplane tickets, country club outings, fine art, classic cars and more.
Yes, we know The Godfather is traditionally filed under "crime", but such is the scope of Francis Ford Coppola's early masterpiece that it has become no less than an American art classic.
This is what, for example, inspired one of the pioneers of data art, Aaron Koblin, with Flight Patterns (2009), a data art classic visualizing air traffic, a material representation of worldwide communication.
That's exactly what California billionaire and supercollector Eli Broad did at Sotheby's several auction seasons ago, acquiring I…I'm Sorry, Roy Lichtenstein's circa 1965 Pop Art classic of a tearful blonde beauty, for $2.47 million.
