What is Fine art?
[[File:Rembrandt_Self-portrait_(Kenwood).jpg|thumb|301x301px|''[[Self-Portrait with Two Circles]]'' by [[Rembrandt]], c.1665–1669. [[Kenwood House]], London]] [[File:Jan_Vermeer_-_The_Art_of_Painting_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|thumb|297x297px|''[[The Art of Painting]]''; by [[Johannes Vermeer]]; 1666–1668; oil on canvas; 1.3 × 1.1 m; [[Kunsthistorisches Museum]] ([[Vienna]], [[Austria]])]] [[File:Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Tower_of_Babel_(Vienna)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg|thumb|250x250px| ''[[The Tower of Babel (Bruegel)|The Tower of Babel]]''; by [[Pieter Bruegel the Elder]]; 1563; oil on panel: 1.14 × 1.55 m; Kunsthistorisches Museum]] A '''fine art''' is an [[art]] for [[aesthetics]] or [[creativity]]. It has to have some sort of practical meaning.<ref>Blunt, 48–55</ref> == Related pages == * [[Applied arts]] * [[The arts]] * [[Performance art]] == References == {{Reflist|30em}} * [[Anthony Blunt|Blunt Anthony]], ''Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450–1600'', 1940 (refs to 1985 edn), [[OUP]], {{ISBN|0198810504}} == Further reading == {{sister links}} * Ballard, A. (1898). [[iarchive:arrowsorteachin00ballgoog|Arrows; or, Teaching a fine art]]. New York: A.S. Barnes & Company. * Caffin, Charles Henry. (1901). [[iarchive:photographyasaf00caffgoog|Photography as a fine art; the achievements and possibilities of photographic art in America]]. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. * Crane, L., and Whiting, C. G. (1885). [[iarchive:artandformation00crangoog|Art and the formation of taste: six lectures]]. Boston: Chautauqua Press. [[iarchive:artandformation00crangoog/page/n115|<!-- pg=102 --> Chapter 4 : Fine Arts]] * Hegel, G. W. F., and Bosanquet, B. (1905). [https://books.google.com/books?id=YmgRAAAAYAAJ The introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of fine art]. [[London]]: K. Paul, Trench &. * Hegel, G. W. F. (1998). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Iw-maVonxV4C Aesthetics: lectures on fine art]. Oxford: Clarendon Press. * Neville, H. (1875). [[iarchive:stageitspastand00nevigoog|The stage: its past and present in relation