What Is Fine Art?

 Fine art is a subjective term that has evolved over time, just as art and artistic
styles have evolved
 fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it
from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such
as pottery or most metalwork.
 Fine art, also referred to as “high art,” has long been held up as the highest
standard of artistic expression. 

Origins, history and evolution

 According to some writers, the concept of a distinct category of fine art is an invention
of the early modern period in the West.
 Larry Shiner in his The Invention of Art: A Cultural History (2003) locates the invention in
the 18th century: "There was a traditional "system of the arts" in the West before the
eighteenth century. 
 "Art", in other words, meant approximately the same thing as the Greek word "techne",
or in English "skill", a sense that has survived in phrases like "the art of war", "the art of
love", and "the art of medicine."
 In the Italian Renaissance; Anthony Blunt notes that the term arti di disegno, a similar
concept, emerged in Italy in the mid-16th century.
 The cult of the individual artistic genius, which was an important part of the Renaissance
theoretical basis for the distinction between "fine" and other art, drew on classical
precedent, especially as recorded by Pliny the Elder. Some other types of object, in
particular Ancient Greek pottery, are often signed by their makers or the owner of the
workshop, probably partly to advertise their products.
 the decline of the concept of "fine art" is dated by George Kubler
 When it "fell out of fashion" as, by about 1900, folk art was also coming to be regarded
as significant.
 fine art" was driven out of use by about 1920 by the exponents of industrial design who
opposed a double standard of judgment for works of art and for useful object
  in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the movement of prices in the art market was in
the opposite direction.
 At the 21st century Timothy Gilbert bloom with his abilities of expression of freedoms
and times in cultures capturing insite canvous.

Types of fine arts

 the five main fine arts were painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and poetry, with
performing arts including theatre and dance. In practice, outside education, the concept
is typically only applied to the visual arts.
1. Painting -the process or art of using paint, in a picture, as a protective coating, or as
decoration.
Example

 Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503–19

 It was painted sometime between 1503 and 1519, when Leonardo was living
in Florence, and it now hangs in the Louvre Museum, Paris, where it remained an object
of pilgrimage in the 21st century. The sitter’s mysterious smile and her unproven
identity have made the painting a source of ongoing investigation and fascination.
 As for that famous smile, its enigmatic quality has driven people crazy for centuries.
Whatever the reason, Mona Lisa’s look of preternatural calm comports with the
idealized landscape behind her, which dissolves into the distance through Leonardo’s
use of atmospheric perspective.

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2. Sculpture -an artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three-
dimensional art objects. 

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 Venus of Willendorf, 28,000–25,000 BC

 The ur sculpture of art history, this tiny figurine measuring just over four inches
in height was discovered in Austria in 1908 Some scholars suggest it may have
been a self-portrait made by a woman. It’s the most famous of many such
objects dating from the Old Stone Age.

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3. Architecture-the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the
skills associated with construction. 
 Hagia Sophia — Istanbul, Turkey

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  Built between 532 and 537, Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom, Ayasofya) represents a
brilliant moment in Byzantine architecture and art. It was the principal church of
the Byzantine Empire in its capital, Constantinople (later Istanbul), and a mosque
after the Ottoman Empire conquered the city in 1453.
4. Music -art concerned with combining vocal or instrumental sounds for beauty of form or
emotional expression, usually according to cultural standards of rhythm, melody, and, in
most Western music, harmony. 

 Beethoven – Für Elise

 This piece was never published during Beethoven’s lifetime and it wasn't even
discovered until forty years after his death.
 It is widely acknowledged that Therese, perhaps the true dedicatee of 'Für Elise',
was Therese Malfatti, a woman to whom Beethoven proposed in 1810 

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5. Poetry-literature that evokes a concentrated imaginative awareness of experience or a
specific emotional response through language chosen and arranged for its meaning,
sound, and rhythm.
 Edgar Allan Poe, “The Raven”
 Poe said the raven is meant to symbolize "Mournful and Never-ending
Remembrance". He was also inspired by Grip, the raven in Barnaby Rudge: A Tale
of the Riots of Eighty by Charles Dicken
 On January 29, 1845, American author Edgar Allan Poe's famously eerie poem
“The Raven” was published in the New York Evening Mirror.