The classification of fine arts is a branch of art criticism, which is called the morphology of art (Ancient Greek). μορφή is a form and λόγος is a word, a teaching). This classification is based on a strict hierarchy of aesthetic and art criticism categories: class, genus, species, variety, genre. So fine art is called a class of spatial arts, combining painting, sculpture, graphics, monumental art, photographic art, other types and varieties....

Pictorial art or pictorial arts (from "from" and Art.-Slav. "image"; praslav. ob- + razъ — cut, draw a line; To decorate) is a class of spatial arts that combines painting, sculpture, graphics, monumental art and photographic art. The criterion for their unification at the semiotic level of classification "is the volume, three-dimensionality or flatness, two-dimensionality of the images created with their help. It is this feature that determines the distinction that has developed in the...