Fine-art definition

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Any highly creative or intricate skill.
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Fine art is defined as drawing, sculpting, painting, literature, music, dance, architecture and theatre, or a product of these disciplines.

An example of fine art is a Picasso painting.

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Artistic objects, as paintings, sculpture, etc. collectively.

An exhibition of fine art.

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Art produced or intended primarily for beauty rather than utility.
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Something requiring highly developed techniques and skills.

The fine art of teaching.

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Any of the art forms that include drawing, painting, sculpture, and ceramics, and, occas., architecture, literature, music, dramatic art, or dancing.
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Any of the art forms, such as sculpture, painting, or music, used to create such art.
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An exact skill that needs practice to perfect.
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The singular form of fine arts.
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Fine-art Sentence Examples

  • The sight of some battle-pictures revived his taste for fine art.

  • In the provinces there are national schools of fine art and of music and other establishments and free subventioned schools.

  • In the effort to reduce the practice of economy to a fine art he arrived at the conviction that the less labour a man did, over and above the positive demands of necessity, the better for him and for the community at large; he would have had the order of the week reversed - six days of rest for one of labour.

  • The Viennese women are justly celebrated for their beauty and elegance; and dressing as a fine art is cultivated here with almost as great success as in Paris.

  • The aesthetic arts of the American aborigines cannot be studied apart from their languages, industries, social organizations, lore Fine art.

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