What is "beaux arts"

"the fine arts," 1821, from French; also in reference to Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, and the widely imitated conventional type of art and architecture advocated there.

n. the study and creation of visual works of art [syn: fine arts]

Beaux Arts, Beaux arts, or Beaux-Arts (Fine Arts in English) may refer to:

• Académie des Beaux-Arts, a French arts institution (not a school)
• Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts, a Belgian arts school
• Beaux-Arts architecture, an architectural style
• Beaux Arts Gallery, an important gallery of British modern art
• Beaux-Arts Institute of Design aka BAID, New York City based art and architecture school
• Beaux Arts Trio, a classical music chamber group
• Beaux Arts, Washington, a small town in the Seattle metropolitan area
• École des Beaux-Arts, several art schools in France
  • École nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon
  • École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
• Fine art, a style of painting popular at the turn of the 19th and 20th century
• Palais des Beaux Arts, a federal cultural venue in Brussels, Belgium.