美術
びじゅつ · bijutsu · JLPT N1 · noun
art
🎨 美 (beautiful) + 術 (skill, technique) = beautiful skill: fine arts
術 means skill or technique, as in 手術 (shujutsu, surgery). Add 館 (hall) to get 美術館 (bijutsukan), an art museum.
美 — sheep 羊 on top + big 大 below
美 is traditionally explained as a pictograph of a person (大) wearing a large sheep or ram's-head ornament, suggesting beauty through adornment. An alternative reading takes 羊 (sheep) over 大 (big) to mean 'a big, fat sheep'—seen as delicious and pleasing, hence 'beautiful, good'.