What is Fine Arts

Fine arts is a part of humanities, is a study of the phenomenon of fine arts and its laws of science, the evolution of the history of fine arts, fine arts theory and fine arts criticism are its main content. Fine Arts studies the phenomena of fine arts such as artists, fine arts creation, fine arts appreciation, and fine arts activities, and also studies fine arts trends, modeling aesthetics, and fine arts history. In addition, art studies should also study its own history, i.e., the history of art studies, just as philosophy studies the history of philosophy. Fine arts can not only use its own unique methods of research, but also draw on the methods of philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, sociology, literature and art, so the study of fine arts can be combined with the study of other disciplines to form the fringe of fine arts research or the formation of new cross-disciplines, such as sociology of fine arts, psychology of fine arts, fine arts market, fine arts informatics, fine arts management, and so on. etc. Here, the meaning of the word "fine arts" is sometimes extended to the field of plastic arts such as calligraphy and photography. Through this definition, the basic research objects of fine arts include art history, art criticism and art theory, constituting the study of the phenomenon of "fine arts", which has formed the basic framework of fine arts in China.