beaux-arts
French fine arts
Beaux-arts refers to the fine arts, especially as traditionally conceived—painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and poetry.
The term comes from French and often appears in contexts discussing classical artistic training or aesthetic ideals: She studied beaux-arts in Paris. (Capitalized Beaux-Arts refers to the architectural style.)
Pigment on canvas
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- architectureBuilding design discipline
- musicOrganized auditory art
- poetryMetrical literary composition
aesthetics · classical · artistic · training · academic
painting
Pigment on canvas
- sculptureShaped three-dimensional art
- architectureBuilding design discipline
- musicOrganized auditory art
poetry · aesthetics · classical · artistic · training · academic
- museum collectionsart collections, art collection, paintings, antiquities, historical artifacts
- art educationart classes, art schools, art curriculum, art teacher, art school
- art termspainting, sculpture, drawing, portrait, landscape
- architectureEiffel Tower, buildings, architects, design, thatching
- World's FairEiffel Tower, world fair, Epcot, expo, Space Needle
- 19th century artimpressionism, realism, romanticism, neoclassicism, symbolism
beaux-artsapplied arts
Design serving practical ends
commercial art · industrial design · practical arts · craft · decorative arts
beaux-artsBrutalism
Raw concrete architectural movement
modernism · functionalism · International Style · Bauhaus · minimalism
beaux-artsfolk art
Traditional community-made creativity
outsider art · naive art · kitsch · mass culture · primitive art