The academic course of instruction intended to provide general knowledge and usually comprising the arts, humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences, as opposed to professional or technical subjects.

The purely aesthetic arts, such as music, painting, and poetry, as opposed to industrial or functional arts such as engineering or carpentry.

plural of martial art

A postgraduate degree usually in a non-science subject. / A person holding such a degree.

The practical arts, such as engineering, metalworking or carpentry. / The teaching of the knowledge and skills needed to work with tools and machinery.

(archaic) In the 19th century, engineering and other mechanical fields of expertise (comparable to performing arts and the fine arts).

All the handicrafts based upon making decorative and useful things manually.

plural of visual art

Art forms that are primarily visual in nature, such as painting, photography, printmaking, and filmmaking.

plural of traditional art