0 drawings, paintings, and sculptures that are admired for their beauty and have no practical use --
1 a type of art that is admired for its beauty, for example painting, sculpture, music, and dance --
Making a four-minute speech is a fine art form; a parliamentary version of a haiku.
They may buy a painting or some other work of fine art.
They have got it down to a fine art in the motion before us.
It has been in operation for many years and has been brought to a very fine art.
It seems a paradox that dealing in fine art, much of it old, should be so controversial.
When our modern world-picture represents architecture as a fine art, it is allocated to the realm of innate talent that demands free play for novel inventions of selfexpression.
As architects, we are trapped between a creative output as in fine art and the empirical, quantifiable research in the construction industry.
The ideas that emerge in fine art somehow overlap the same ideas in science or psychology.
