what is the meaning of art?

Answer 1

Well it was Orwell that said "All Art is Propaganda" - this is quite a deep concept when you really think about it.

If you view art in the eye of representation, connotation and denotation it makes sense......

Answer 2

its original and broadest definition, art (from the Latin ars, meaning "skill" or "craft") is the product or process of the effective application of a body of knowledge, most often using a set of skills; this meaning is preserved in such phrases as "liberal arts" and "martial arts". However, in the modern use of the word, which rose to prominence after 1750, “art” is commonly understood to be skill used to produce an aesthetic result (Hatcher, 1999). Britannica Online defines it as "the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others"[1]. By any of these definitions of the word, artistic works have existed for almost as long as humankind, from early pre-historic art to contemporary art..............try gooling it..

Answer 3

Art has meaning when it has purpose. What determines purpose? That depends on the viewer. I subscribe to the idea that if art inspires you the viewer to feel or think of anything, whether it is what i intended or not. Though I do try to manipulate your thoughts to what I want them to be.

Answer 4

Art is doing something well.
Art is self expression.
Art is changing the world when it can, and it does very often.

Answer 5

Art is the form your soul takes when you place it out into the public for ridicule and consumption.

Answer 6

Art, its a spl kind of activity of a person. In which he/she may be superior than other. For example : Dancing, Drawing, Karate, and so on...

Answer 7

art is anything that gets an emotional response from people - whether the response is good or bad

Answer 8

extremely broad. art is a delivery system - a messenger. but then, what is art? thank you for not asking that b/c you'd get dissertation length responses. one would be from me.

Answer 9

ART?

Art
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Venus de Milo exhibited in the Louvre museum, France.
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Venus de Milo exhibited in the Louvre museum, France.

By its original and broadest definition, art (from the Latin ars, meaning "skill" or "craft") is the product or process of the effective application of a body of knowledge, most often using a set of skills; this meaning is preserved in such phrases as "liberal arts" and "martial arts". However, in the modern use of the word, which rose to prominence after 1750, “art” is commonly understood to be skill used to produce an aesthetic result (Hatcher, 1999). Britannica Online defines it as "the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others"[1]. By any of these definitions of the word, artistic works have existed for almost as long as humankind, from early pre-historic art to contemporary art.
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* 1 Defining art
o 1.1 Theories of art
o 1.2 Art and class
o 1.3 Utility of art
o 1.4 Classification disputes about art
* 2 Forms, genres, mediums, and styles
* 3 Art History
* 4 Characteristics of art
o 4.1 Skill
o 4.2 Judgments of value
o 4.3 Communicating emotion
o 4.4 Creative impulse
o 4.5 Symbols
* 5 Cultural Traditions of Art
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 Further reading

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Defining art

How best to define the term “art” is a subject of much contention; many books and journal articles have been published arguing over even the basics of what we mean by the term “art” (Davies, 1991 and Carroll, 2000). Theodor Adorno claimed in 1969 “It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident any more.” (Danto, 2003). Indeed, it is not even clear anymore who has the right to define art. Artists, philosophers, anthropologists, and psychologists all use the notion of art in their respective fields, and give it operational definitions that are not very similar to each others.
The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, September 1888.
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The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, September 1888.

Nonetheless we can make some progress towards defining art in its most everyday senses. The first broadest sense of “art” is the one that has stayed closest to the older Latin meaning, which roughly translates to "skill" or "craft", and also from an Indo-European root meaning "arrangement" or "to arrange". In this sense, art is whatever is described as having undergone a deliberate process of arrangement by an agent. A few examples where this meaning proves very broad include artifact, artificial, artifice, artillery, medical arts, and military arts. However, there are many other colloquial uses of the word, all with some relation to its etymology.

The second, more narrow, more recent sense of the word “art” is roughly as an abbreviation for creative art or “fine art.” Here we mean that skill is being used to express the artist’s creativity, or to engage the audience’s aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of the “finer” things. Often, if the skill is being used in a lowbrow or practical way, people will consider it a craft instead of art. Likewise, if the skill is being used in a commercial or industrial way, it will be considered design instead of art. On the other hand, crafts and design are sometimes considered applied art. Some thinkers have argued that the difference between fine art and applied art has more to do with value judgments made about the art than any clear definitional difference (Novitz, 1992). However, even fine art often has goals beyond just pure creativity and self-expression. The purpose of works of art may be to communicate ideas, such as in politically-, spiritually-, or philosophically-motivated art, to create a sense of beauty (see “aesthetics”), to explore the nature of perception, for pleasure, or to generate strong emotions. The purpose may also be seemingly nonexistent.

The ultimate derivation of 'fine' in 'fine art' comes from the ancient Greek philosophy of Aristotle, who proposed four causes or explainations of a thing. The Final Cause of a thing is the purpose for its existence, and the term 'fine art' is derived from this notion. If the Final Cause of an artwork is simply the artwork itself, "art for art's sake", and not a means to another end, then that artwork could appropriately be called 'fine'. The closely related concept of beauty is classically defined as "that which when seen, pleases". Pleasure is the Final Cause of beauty, and so is not a means to another end, but is an end in itself.

Art can describe several kinds of things: a study of creative skill, a process of using the creative skill, a product of the creative skill, or the audience’s experiencing of the creative skill. The creative arts (“art”’ as discipline) are a collection of disciplines (“arts”) which produce artworks (“art” as objects) that is compelled by a personal drive (“art” as activity) and echoes or reflects a message, mood, or symbolism for the viewer to interpret (“art” as experience).

Answer 10

ART IS THERE TO MAKE YOU THINK! Think about it.