Fine Arts vs Visual Arts
Art encompasses a wide range of activities and creations, dating back to when humans lived in caves and hunted animals. Artistic activities include painting, drawing, sculpting, tattooing, and more. Typically, we think of art as someone sketching with a pencil on paper, an artist creating a painting, or a person singing or dancing. However, art is not limited to these visually appealing activities. There is a distinction between fine arts and visual arts that can be confusing for many. Fine art is an artistic activity that is undertaken for the love and beauty of the activity itself, rather than for its functional value. In modern times, this way of categorizing art forms seems inappropriate, and the division between fine arts and visual arts becomes thin and blurred.
Key Takeaways
- Fine arts are activities undertaken mainly for the love of nature and to derive aesthetic pleasure, not for monetary gain.
- Visual arts include creations of art that we can see with our eyes, such as painting, drawing, sculpting, architecture, photography, movies, and printmaking.
- In today’s time, the concepts of beauty and aesthetics do not apply exclusively to fine arts, and art forms included in visual arts are not the only ones that are visual in nature.
