What
is art?
Art,
noun, defined by google as “the expression or application of human
creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as
painting or sculpture” or “works produced by such skill and
imagination”. Many objects that we know as art today were not
perceived as art many years ago, as well as the artists. Many of the
objects we identify as art today were made in times and places when
people had no concept of art as we understand the term. These objects
may have been appreciated in various ways and often admired, but not
as art. Art is the use of skill and imagination in the creation of
aesthetic objects. I believe anything created can be art. Its a sense
of creativity, art is something that is visually appealing to a
person in any way.
Aesthetics
can be defined as, “a set of principles concerned with the nature
and appreciation of beauty, especially in art”. It is the branch of
philosophy that deals with the principles of beauty and artistic
taste. The word derives from the Greek aisthetikos, meaning
"of sense perception." When we about an aesthetic
experience, we are usually talking about some form of art.
"What
is Art?, What is an Artist?”,
http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/artartists/artartists.html,
Jan 2012
