What is art? Simple enough question at the very skin of things, but when you start to look at the flesh and bones it gets a lot more complicated.
The only way in which to address this question would be to go through and look at our history, the history of art. What it was to be an artist and how that has changed today? What was considered art in the past? What was it about the traditional concept of art that made it art? To find out where we are going, we have to know where we have come from. To some extent this applies to our little journey; to find out what art is in the 21st Century, we have to know what art has been in the past.
Many have tried to explain what art actually is. Even artists themselves in areas of post modernism, turned to making art to explain art itself. People have written books, articles and endless thoughts on it and yet, every so often we find ourselves in some gallery some where asking “Is that really art?” So, attacking Google as I sometimes do, I keyed in "define:art".
The following displayed:
- The products of human creativity; works of art collectively; "an art exhibition"; "a fine collection of art"
- The creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"
- A superior skill that you can learn by study and practice and observation; "the art of conversation"; "it's quite an art"
- Artwork: photographs or other visual representations in a printed publication; "the publisher was responsible for all the artwork in the book"
- Art, in its broadest meaning, is the expression of creativity or imagination, or both.
- A form of human activity created primarily as an aesthetic expression, especially, but not limited to drawing, painting and sculpture.
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