The action or practice of imitating or copying. †arts of imitation = imitative arts.

The art of drawing or sketching; (hence) the process, practice, or art of devising, planning, or constructing something (as a work of art…

The expression or application of creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting, drawing, or sculpture, producing works…

In plural. Originally: the creative arts, including the visual arts, poetry, music, rhetoric, etc., whose products are intended to be appreciated…

Characterized by or consisting in imitation.

Drawing, outline; sketching, delineation. Also: a drawing or diagram. Obsolete.

In singular. One of these arts. Also as a mass noun: the fine arts collectively, esp. as constituting a department or subject of training, study…

The fine arts. Also used elliptically for the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris; frequently attributive, of the standards of architecture and art…

(often in plural, as visual arts) one of the creative arts intended to be appreciated by sight, such as painting, sculpture, film, etc.; (as a mass…

Pictures or paintings collectively; the visual arts; (also) the world represented in a painting. rare.