You know, this topic has come up a few times and here is a little more on what I think Fine Art is.

A lot of people spend their lives in school learning about Fine Art, I myself am getting closer to my MFA. So, to me (and to most scholars and artists), fine art is controlled, follows rules of art and the artist, through his art education knows what Fine Art is.

All the "Masters" had decades of training and experience. There is a difference between art and fine art. Fine art obeys laws -- visual perception laws, rules and theories. Art on the other hand doesn't have boundaries. When I speak of Masters, I speak of the fine artists that have paintings that are considered living treasures: Leonardo, Dali, etc...

Fine art photography or just art. Well, that depends on the laws and visual perception rules that have been followed because at their core it is these laws that make great paintings. It creates interest and allows the image to force us to look at it longer than we would look at other images. Is it just art... or fine art? Only time can really tell (usually) and almost every time, the fine art always follows the rules of art and visual perception.