Unnecessary Art Terminology Battles -133

Responding to a regularly heard but confusing comparison between this elusive but grandiose thing called ‘Fine Art’ and its apparently diminutive second rate cousin called ‘Decorative Art.’ This is an attempt to provide a way to separate the categories of the visual art forms and the categories of quality within them.

In Response to Elizabeth

QUESTION:Can you please define Fine Art, and Decorative Art. Lots of people mix decorative art as fine art. Furthermore galleries will not define fine art, they say it’s up to museums to determine it. After hearing this debate on the Xanadu Gallery site it has me puzzled what artists and well established galleries think of this definition. Hope you can shed some light.

Elizabeth