fartsy

artsy-fartsy

Overtly interested in art and style, perhaps overly or pretentiously so. I like that café, but it's always packed with artsy-fartsy types talking about their obscure interests.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

artsy (fartsy)

mod. obviously or overly artistic; effete. (Mildly offensive.) The decorations were sort of artsy fartsy, but the overall effect was quite nice.
See also: artsy, fartsy
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See also:
  • artsy fartsy
  • artsy-fartsy
  • artsy
  • stuck-up
  • have a passion for
  • have a passion for (something)
  • passion
  • a going concern
  • concern
  • DI
References in periodicals archive
Relatively tight script leaves plenty of room for spectacularly vulgar gags (who says bodily fluids look best inside bodies?), gratuitous nudity and simulated sex as well as a deft running send-up of chummy local TV news anchors and, yes, "Citizen Kane." ("Tromadu, the stately pleasure palace, home to the artsy -- and to the fartsy.")
Use of comically melodramatic instrumental score is artsy yet not fartsy. Pic's original French title is drawn from Balzac, referring to upstanding workers who toil all their lives on the assumption that a reward awaits them in heaven.
There is also art for kids on Saturdays with the workshop entitled Artsy Fartsy.
The Journal Exec must remain nameless, but for convenience and in deference to the great Paul Simon - or, if you are rather more fartsy than artsy, let's say in homage to Mr Shearer - we could call him Al.
Shortly after the robbery, Ward would begin to turn down the regular and decently lucrative jobs illustrating children's books he'd pursued and hated since the 1990s (his titles include Even Firefighters Hug Their Moms and Fartsy Claus).
In the early 1990s we also shared a love of men's chunky diver's watches, me because I was an artsy fartsy art student who thought it was entertainingly ironic and she because they were just so damn macho.
Sure, he could border on annoying when he got to harping on the way light looked and how different colors created mood and shadows played artsy fartsy, blah, blah, blah.
Seasoned marketing people will tell you that there is much more to developing an effective advertisement than making it look artsy fartsy. An AF ad may win advertising awards just based on looks, but when it comes to productivity, they are practically useless unless good copy and graphic communication skills are blended with uniqueness and convincing creativity in the copy.
A second session, entitled "Artsy Fartsy Customers--Dealing with and Charging for Fine Art Reproduction," will teach attendees to develop the local artist market, control the artist ego, handle the transaction, and charge for every service along the way.
While it may seem artsy fartsy, the girls insist they're not an ironic art installation, which is a shame because they'd probably win next year's Turner Prize for a recent Cast Off meeting, when 50 knitters piled on to a tube carriage and travelled around the Circle line.
Rosemary Court Artsy Fartsy Art & Craft and Gallery Walk.
Allowing that Joyce was something of a coprophiliac - enjoyed playing fartsy with his wife(20) - I think it safe to say that such a statement is not likely to win the sympathy of most feminists.(21) While it may be a mistake to make Joyce out as the "bogeyman" (what Scott is quite understandably concerned to deny), it is just as much a mistake, I think, to make him out as the "new womanly man." Joyce, in the final analysis, is merely a man.
"Artsy Fartsy" is the first book in an alphabetical series, an Aldo Zelnick comic book novel starring a 10 year old Colorado boy who is given a sketchbook by his grandmother to record all his "artsy -fartsy" ideas.