artistic pursuits
Making beautiful things
Artistic pursuits are creative activities undertaken seriously over time—painting, sculpture, music, writing, dance, theater, and similar disciplines.
The phrase implies sustained engagement rather than casual dabbling: She abandoned her corporate career to focus on artistic pursuits.
It often carries a slight formality, appearing in discussions of education, personal development, or how someone spends their time.
- paintingPigment on canvas
- musicOrganized auditory art
- sound designCrafting audio for media
- proseUnversified language
- poetryMetrical literary composition
puppetry · architecture · storytelling · installation art · art school · interior design · sculpture · mime · dance · graphic design · jewelry making · drawing · ceramics · spoken word poetry · creative writing · novel writing · essay writing · theater
artistic pursuitsscientific research
Systematic investigation for knowledge
STEM fields · hard sciences · laboratory work · engineering · mathematics
artistic pursuitswage labor
Work exchanged for payment
drudgery · toil · manual labor · breadwinning · working for a living
artistic, arts, artist, artists, artistry, artful, artfully, artless, artlessly