U.S. #1259 honors fine arts. The Society of American Graphic Artists held a competition for the design of this stamp. The winning designer was modernist Stuart Davis. Fine Art Fine Art if generally described as “a visual art… created primarily for aesthetic purposes and judged for its beauty and meaningfulness.” Traditionally, the greater fine arts comprised five different mediums – painting, sculpture, architecture, music, and poetry, in addition to the minor arts of drama and dancing. In more recent years, fine art has also come to include installation, calligraphy, dance, theater, photography, and printmaking.