核心畫面

You can think of artwork as the picture side of things, made by hand and eye: whatever someone drew, painted, shaped or photographed, sitting there as a finished thing. The word points at the object, never at the act of making it. Where the object ends up decides which meaning you are reading — on a wall, it is art; on a page waiting to be printed, it is the picture material that goes beside the words.

artwork 可以想成「用手和眼睛做出來的那一面」:有人畫的、塗的、捏的、拍的,最後變成一件放在那裡的成品。這個字更多收起artwork 可以想成「用手和眼睛做出來的那一面」:有人畫的、塗的、捏的、拍的,最後變成一件放在那裡的成品。這個字指的永遠是東西,不是「創作」這個動作。至於你讀到的是哪個意思,看它最後被放到哪裡:掛在牆上,那是藝術品;排在版面上等著送印,那就是跟文字並排的圖稿。同一個畫面,兩個落腳處。

From the word’s history

Wiktionary derives artwork from art + -work, with art going back through Old French to Latin ars, a word about skill and craft. So the compound literally names the thing that skill produced.

來源把 artwork 拆成 art 加 -work,而 art 經古法文往上追到拉丁文的 ars,本來講的是「技藝、做得出來的本事」。合起來字面上就是「憑手藝做出來的東西」。

Wiktionary, entry "artwork" (kaikki snapshot kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1012810383): etymology tree PIE *h₂er- > Latin ars > Old French art > English art, "From art + -work."

Two branches

藝術家做出來的東西

這一支就是核心畫面本身:成品擺在那裡,可以看、可以掛、可以收藏。

noun · B1

Paintings, drawings, sculptures and other things that artists make; also all such work taken together, as a group.

藝術作品

要送印的那一半

同樣是「手做出來的圖」,只是它的去處不是牆,是印刷機。一個版面切成文字和圖兩半,這個字接管了圖的那一半。

noun · B2

The drawings, photographs and other picture material that is prepared and made ready to be printed in a book, magazine, or advertisement — as opposed to the words.

(印刷用的)圖稿