Winterclaw opened this issue on Sep 09, 2009 ยท 39 posts
Believable3D posted Thu, 10 September 2009 at 2:57 AM
The arts generally are the non-technical cultural skills, including languages etc. The fine arts are more specialized, including e.g. painting, sculpture, music.
But not every painting or piece of music is fine art. For instance there is "graphic art," which uses some of the media of fine art, but is primarily a means of communication/advertising. There is also a distinction between "fine art" and "popular art," although this is arguably less hard and fast. Generally, though, popular art is less rigorous. Compare e.g. folk music to classical or baroque. The latter is fine art, the former is not.
It's become popular to say that anything is art, but I disagree. If anything is (can be) art, then nothing is art; the term is utterly meaningless. At any rate, certainly not everything created has the right to be called fine art.
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