Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

In the arts, similarly, idealism affirms imagination and attempts to realize a mental conception of beauty, a standard of perfection, in opposition to aesthetic naturalism and realism.

In other aspects, Pasiphaë, like her niece Medea, was a mistress of magical herbal arts in the Greek imagination.

Sometimes he would meet the young writer Chabanon, who noted some of Rameau's disillusioned confidential remarks: " Day by day, I'm acquiring more good taste, but I no longer have any genius " and " The imagination is worn out in my old head ; it's not wise at this age wanting to practise arts that are nothing but imagination.

I suspect it is the romantic imagination working, as it often does, perfectly efficiently in both the arts and the sciences.

The show aired every weekday morning, and each day Mr. Dressup would lead children through a series of songs, stories, arts, crafts, and imagination games, with the help of his friends Casey and Finnegan, a child and a dog who lived in a treehouse in the back yard.

Often criticized for producing extremely fast gamakam laden sangathis with strength and weight and with wide imagination, a voice as his, running at so fast a speed through the effects of Brighas, twists and turns would come in quick succession that he became an instant hit with both the lay audience as well as those initiated to the arts and science of carnatic music.

The promotion of the fine arts over the decorative in European thought can largely be traced to the Renaissance, when Italian theorists such as Vasari promoted artistic values, exemplified by the artists of the High Renaissance, that placed little value on the cost of materials or the amount of skilled work required to produce a work, but instead valued artistic imagination and the individual touch of the hand of a supremely gifted master such as Michelangelo, Raphael or Leonardo da Vinci, reviving to some extent the approach of antiquity.

In her introduction, she noted that poetry was one of the few arts in which women were allowed to engage without opposition and made a direct connection between women's social freedom and the freedom of the imagination.

The institution of the harem exerted a certain fascination on the European imagination, especially during the Age of Romanticism, and was a central trope of Orientalism in the arts, due in part to the writings of the adventurer Richard Francis Burton.

In any case all this writing is entirely a trade issue, for what journalism has to do with the arts is best left to the reader's judgment and imagination.

His research currently focuses on the arts, imagination, the nature of delusions, and the role of narrative in our thinking.