fine arts

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

Example Sentences

Then there are the museums, including the world class Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.

From The Daily Beast

The most impressive wing of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts was designed by Moshe Safdie.

From The Daily Beast

On his second day of class there, Herring met Cashion, and the two, both fine arts majors, became fast friends.

From The Daily Beast

No one studies the humanities or fine arts for their practical value.

From The Daily Beast

Nobody envied the Secretary of Fine Arts, either his cabinet position or his portfolio.

From The Daily Beast

Opulence introduced the cultivation of the fine arts, with a taste for literature, and consequently for disputation.

From Project Gutenberg

The fine arts subjects such as painting and music were stressed in the seminaries.

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The same thing may be shown to be true, though it is not quite so obvious, of the progress of the fine arts.

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The fine arts, too—I would it were otherwise—have their professors amongst this sordid train.

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They betray no interest in politics, in literature, or in the fine arts.

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