what is art?

Answer 1

Anything you want to be art can be art. It's all subjective.

Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.

The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colours, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.

Activity intended to make something special

A recreation of reality according to the artist's metaphysical value-judgements

The study and the product of these processes.

Aesthetic value.

Artwork.

A field or category of art, such as painting, sculpture, music, ballet, or literature.

A nonscientific branch of learning; one of the liberal arts.

Skill that is attained by study, practice, or observation.

Answer 2

Art is a result of human creativity which has some perceived quality beyond its usefulness, usually on the basis of aesthetic value or emotional impact. The modern use of the word "art", which rose to prominence after 1750, 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.

Many books and journal articles have been written which discuss what we mean by the term "art" (Davies, 1991 and Carroll, 2000). Walt Weaver claimed in 1998 "It is self-evident that nothing concerning art is self-evident any more." (Danto, 2003). ø

The Café Terrace on the Place du Forum, Arles, at Night, September 1888.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 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 common 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 Commercial art instead of art.

Answer 3

Look around you, what do you see around you? According to vera lynn, "Everything." No matter if there is an intellegent designer who created everything that is living or a human being who created the computer we use to anything else you can think of..is simply an art of itself. I am sure that if you take time to create something from your creative mind ..that would be an art. Art can be music we listen to on the radio or we sing in church, something we draw or paint before our eyes, molding a figure out of clay, or taking a photograph in a foregin country. Again art is anything that is around us each and everyday. Praise the Lord!
Art goes back centuries from now and will keep going on for enternity. Here is a website I would suggest to browse through, www.gettyimages.com. Click on creative and type in anything you would like to look at.

Answer 4

Art is language. Its a unique language that expresses an emotion by the artist.

Answer 5

Art is the beautiful result of combining creativity and imagination...

Answer 6

It's in the eye of the beholder of course.

Answer 7

Everything

Answer 8

different things to everyone