Fine art

Fine art

A term used to distinguish artworks considered to have rare and refined quality, often considered - by those who make such judgments - to be more worthy of preservation and study than "popular" or "low" art.

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fine art

Art history; Visual arts

A term used to distinguish artworks considered to have rare and refined quality, often considered - by those who make such judgments - to be more worthy of preservation and study ...

fine art

Arts & crafts; Fine art

Art created for purely aesthetic expression, communication, or contemplation. Painting and sculpture are the best known of the fine arts.

fine arts packer

Professional careers; Occupational titles

A professional who specifies types of packing materials, crating, containerization, and special handling procedures for shipping or storing art objects, scientific specimens, and ...

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Architecture; General architecture

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts is one of the largest museums in the United States. The collection contains over 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most ...

Fine

Photography; Photography techniques

Other than the image resolution, the photo's image quality (Fine or Normal) can also be set with the digital SLR camera. The Fine setting yields better image quality.

art

Printing & publishing; Publishing

Everything except textual copy, including styles, images, ornaments, in either radial symmetry, bilateral symmetry, or asymmetry. See graphics, illustration, clipart, design, ...

anti-art

Art history; Visual arts

Works that seek to undermine prevailing standards for the form or content of anything considered “art,” first used to describe the practices and works of the dada movement that ...

daguerreotype

Art history; Visual arts

The earliest form of commercial photographic print, developed in the mid-nineteenth century in paris by louis j. M. Daguerre, which fixes a positive image on a copper plate coated ...

classical

Art history; Visual arts

Most specifically, this term designates the 5th and 4th centuries bce in greece and the works produced then and there, though it has come to be used of greek and roman antiquity ...

critic

Art history; Visual arts

In relation to art, a person who describes and evaluates, or otherwise judges artworks according to some criteria; somewhat distinct from a connoisseur, who asserts a sensitivity ...

architrave

Art history; Visual arts

The lintel in classical architecture, or that which spans two columns at the top and forms the lowest part of the entablature.

codex

Art history; Visual arts

codex, a manuscript consisting of multiple handwritten pages, thus a set of texts in handwriting,

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