fine art

fine art • n. 1. (also fine arts) creative art, esp. visual art, whose products are to be appreciated primarily or solely for their imaginative, aesthetic, or intellectual content. 2. an activity requiring great skill or accomplishment: he'll have to learn the fine art of persuasion.

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