Painting and sculpture, in which objects are produced that are beautiful rather than useful, can be referred to as fine art or as the fine arts.
He deals in antiques and fine art.
...the university of Cairo's faculty of fine arts.
2.
See have got something down to a fine art
fine art in British English
noun
1.
art produced chiefly for its aesthetic value, as opposed to applied art
2. Also called: beaux arts(often plural)
any of the fields in which such art is produced, such as painting, sculpture, and engraving
fine art in American English
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
Word origin
orig. considered purely aesthetic, as distinguished from the “useful” arts
Examples of 'fine art' in a sentence
fine art
Not because he's greedy but because he knows the score: compromise is no way to make fine art.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
For more tangible gifts, gold coins, fine art and vintage wines are also popular presents that could increase in value.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Remember those university fine arts students who pulled off a brilliant hoax by faking a holiday to Malaga and presenting it as their end-of-year project?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In other languages
fine art
British English: fine art NOUN
Painting and sculpture, in which objects are produced that are beautiful rather than useful, can be referred to as fine art or as the fine arts.
He deals in antiques and fine art.
American English: fine art
Brazilian Portuguese: belas artes
Chinese: 美术品
European Spanish: arte
French: objets d'art
German: bildende Kunst
Italian: belle arti
Japanese: 美術
Korean: 미술품
European Portuguese: belas-artes
Latin American Spanish: arte
Chinese translation of 'fine art'
fine art
n(u)
(also fine arts) 美术(術) (měishù)
he's got it down to a fine art他对(對)此游(遊)刃有余(餘) (tā duìcǐ yóu rèn yǒu yú)