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Yeah I think that's pretty fair. Music, theatre, cinema are performing arts. Not art. You qualify it with "performing".

And that's my point really. It's a distinction based on definition. Collectively, institutions recognize this and inherently add qualifiers to distinguish between these varying disciplines.




So am I right in understanding you aren’t saying photography isn’t “an art”; just that it isn’t “fine art”? In which case I think you’d see much less disagreement here.


I'd probably drop the fine and call what you call fine art, art. But functionally, would likely agree with the distinctions you make between them.




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