fine art

[fahyn]
noun
a visual art considered to have been created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness, specifically, painting, sculpture, drawing, watercolor, graphics, and architecture.
Compare commercial art.


Origin:
1760–70

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fine art
 
n
1.  art produced chiefly for its aesthetic value, as opposed to applied art
2.  (often plural) Also called: beaux arts any of the fields in which such art is produced, such as painting, sculpture, and engraving

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Fine arts is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a children's mummer's parade, as on the Fourth of July, with prizes for the best costumes.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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Cultural Dictionary

fine arts definition


Art that is produced more for beauty or spiritual significance than for physical utility. Painting, sculpture, and music are fine arts.

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Example sentences
Fine arts photographers sell their photographs as fine artwork.
Let us turn to another familiar human interest, that of the fine arts.
Both for the vehicle and for the aims of fine arts, you must frequent the
  public square.
He was reproached with indulging his taste for the fine arts at an immoderate
  expense.
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