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How you can tell a piece as "fine art"?

• In art galleries, you see portraits of painting. People call it art. But, you see a picture in a children's book or a drawing. They don't call it art. How you can tell a piece as "fine art"?

• Answer:

  There are a couple of arguments regarding this; "Fine art" is anything created for the purpose of being art, or anything that the creator decides is art. For example, "Oak Tree" by Michael Craig-Martin is a glass of water on a glass shelf, but he says it is an oak tree, so as the artist he is given the power to deem things "art". This ties in with the concept that anything put in an art gallery is "art". Often, art is seen as the idea behind a piece of work. For example, Damien Hirst's spot paintings are mass produced in a factory, meaning he isn't the creator of each individual painting. However, it was his idea to begin with, allowing people to argue that he is the artist in that respect. Alternatively, the term "art" is derived from the Latin word for "skill", so it could be anything produced with skill, such as the paintings of the Renaissance that were commissioned but had no critical idea behind them. They are beautiful and skilfully crafted paintings, and therefore are art. Generally I go for a mixture of the three, accepting most things called "art" as "art". A better argument isn't whether it is art at all, but if it is "good art"; looking at what it is doing and how well it does that.