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What Is Art

Art refers to a diverse range of human activities involving the creation of visual, auditory, or performing works. Artworks express imaginative or technical skill and are meant to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional impact. Art has had many functions throughout history, including personal expression, social communication, and questioning aspects of society. The oldest forms of art are visual arts like painting, sculpture, and photography, while broader definitions include performing arts, literature, and interactive media. In the 17th century, art became distinguished from applied crafts by prioritizing aesthetic considerations. The nature and definition of art are explored in the field of philosophy known as aesthetics.

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What Is Art

Art refers to a diverse range of human activities involving the creation of visual, auditory, or performing works. Artworks express imaginative or technical skill and are meant to be appreciated for their beauty or emotional impact. Art has had many functions throughout history, including personal expression, social communication, and questioning aspects of society. The oldest forms of art are visual arts like painting, sculpture, and photography, while broader definitions include performing arts, literature, and interactive media. In the 17th century, art became distinguished from applied crafts by prioritizing aesthetic considerations. The nature and definition of art are explored in the field of philosophy known as aesthetics.

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What is art?

Art refers to a diverse range of human activities in creating visual,


auditory, or performing artifacts. These artworks express the author's
imaginative or technical skill. Art is intended to be appreciated for its
beauty or emotional power. In their most general form these activities
include the production of works of art, the criticism of art, the study of
the history of art, and the aesthetic dissemination of art.

Functions of arts

Art has had a great number of different functions throughout its history,
making its purpose difficult to abstract or quantify to any single concept.
This does not imply that the purpose of Art is "vague", but that it has had
many unique, different reasons for being created.

Art can have a personal function, it is an expression of basic human


instinct for harmony, balance, rhythm. Art at this level is not an action or
an object, but an internal appreciation of balance and harmony (beauty),
and therefore an aspect of being human beyond utility. Art also provides
a way to experience oneself in relation to the universe. This experience
may often become unmotivated, as one appreciates art, music or poetry.

On the other hand, art may have a social function. At its simplest, art is a
form of communication. It seeks to entertain and bring about a particular
emotion or mood, for the purpose of relaxing or entertaining the viewer.
Art may also be an expression of social protest, seeking to question
aspects of society.

Types of art

The oldest form of art is visual arts, which includes creation of images
or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking,
photography, and other visual media. Architecture is often included as
one of the visual arts; however, like the decorative arts, it involves the
creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are
essential, in a way that they usually are not in a painting, for example.

Music, theater, film, dance, and other performing arts, as well as


literature and other media such as interactive media, are included in a
broader definition of art or the arts.

History

Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not
differentiated from crafts or sciences. In modern usage after the 17th
century, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, the fine arts are
separated and distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as
decorative or applied arts.

Characteristics of art

Art may be characterized in terms of mimesis (i.e. its representation of


reality), expression, communication of emotion, or other qualities. During
the Romantic period, art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the
human mind to be classified with religion and science". Though the
definition of what constitutes art is disputed and has changed over time,
general descriptions mention an idea of imaginative or technical skill
stemming from human agency and creation.

Aesthetics

The nature of art, and related concepts such as creativity and


interpretation, are explored in a branch of philosophy known as
aesthetics.

Source: Wikipedia

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