When you hear the term "fine arts," what does it mean to you?

It's not about installations, which are art, but visual art. And though some consider craftwork to be art, again it's utilitarian. Fine art is created purely for its beauty and aesthetic.

Fine arts is different from applied arts, which would include the artwork that you see on T-shirts or even tattoos. Some of those are amazing and beautiful, but the works are not created for their aesthetic value alone.

Fine arts is also different from decorative arts. Though you might say that some paintings can be decorative in nature, the paintings weren't created to decorate objects, like Toll Work or wall hangings that are meant solely for decoration.

Fine arts might be said to include these forms: drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking. Visual arts also include forms like painting and sculpture, but you can also include crafts, photography, film, graphic design, architecture, fashion design, and more.

Artists make art, no matter what form they use. Fine art isn't lofty, it's beauty for beauty's sake. There is no other purpose. Most of the Marcellos' paintings can be classified as fine art.

But Irene also loved to paint screens and boxes, which would be decorative art. Seeing one of these boxes, though, would still make you see the beauty in the item that was decorated.

For a while, Frank tinkered in putting junk sculpture together. His warriors built from old car parts and junk was a delight, and his "nailed" fish is a family heirloom. They kept it above their pool  deck in Sarasota.

Artists create, period. Whether their work is considered fine art, applied art, decorative art, or performing art, it's all meant to make us feel something and/or to make us think.

The whole Marcello family has some form of art to be engaged in -- decorative art, graphic design, anime art, crafts, and fine art. Even writing and music.