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fine art

  1. any of the art forms that include drawing, painting, sculpture, and ceramics, or occasionally, architecture, literature, music, dramatic art, or dancing: usually used in pl.
  2. artistic objects, as paintings, sculpture, etc. collectively an exhibition of fine art
  3. any highly creative or intricate skill

Etymology: orig. considered purely aesthetic, as distinguished from the “useful” arts

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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