What is Art?

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Colin Kaminski

What is Art?

Post by Colin Kaminski »

My definition of art is something that invokes an emotion:

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BobH

What is Art?

Post by BobH »

That which an artist makes. :wink: :roll: :) :? :shock: :)
Colin Kaminski

What is Art?

Post by Colin Kaminski »

The question used to come up with guitar makers all the time. Is making a guitar art? How about song writing?
Danny Bee

What is Art?

Post by Danny Bee »

Art refers to a diverse range of human activities, creations, and expressions that are appealing or attractive to the senses or have some significance to the mind of an individual. The word "art" may be used to cover all or any of the arts, including music, literature and other forms. It is most often used to refer specifically to the visual arts, including media such as painting, sculpture, and printmaking. However it can also be applied to forms of art that stimulate the other senses, such as music, an auditory art. Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which considers art.

Traditionally the term art was used to refer to any skill or mastery, a concept which altered during the Romantic period, when art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science". Generally art is a (product of) human activity, made with the intention of stimulating the human senses as well as the human mind; by transmitting emotions and/or ideas. Beyond this description, there is no general agreed-upon definition of art. Art is also able to illustrate abstract thought and its expressions can elicit previously hidden emotions in its audience.

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