( fine arts)
1.
Painting and sculpture, in which objects are produced that are beautiful rather than useful, can be referred to as fine art or as the fine arts .
He deals in antiques and fine art.
...the university of Cairo’s faculty of fine arts.
N-UNCOUNT : also N in pl
2.
If you have got something down to a fine art , you are able to do it in a very skilful or efficient way because you have had a lot of experience of doing it.
PHRASE : V inflects