... fine arts, establishes such categories as literature, the visual arts, the graphic arts, the plastic arts, the decorative arts, the performing arts, music, and architecture. Popular and primitive art, and indeed art up to the end of the Middle Ages in Europe, served without embarrassment some purpose beyond the pure enjoyment of beauty. The distinction between artist and craftsman hardly appears ... before the Renaissance, and the term fine arts, does not appear until the mid-18th century. By then the founding of academies had given impetus to the concept of fine art as creation on a lo...

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... fine arts, establishes such categories as literature, the visual arts, the graphic arts, the plastic arts, the decorative arts, the performing arts, music, and architecture. Popular and primitive art, and indeed art up to the end of the Middle Ages in Europe, served without embarrassment some purpose beyond the pure enjoyment of beauty. The distinction between artist and craftsman hardly appears ... before the Renaissance, and the term fine arts, does not appear until the mid-18th century. By then the founding of academies had given impetus to the concept of fine art as creation on a lo...

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... more pure, powerful colours. By going against the authorized laws of the salon, these artists' works were rejected by many of the academic art institutions as they deemed it "amateurish" and "unfinished". The Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Refused) came ... for entertainment purposes- to laugh at the artworks! The salon ended up attracting much more visitors than the regular salon due to the new art style. The main members of the Impressionist group consisted of Claude Monet, Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Edgar ... Gogh and Edvard Munch) and the int...

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