Art refers to a diverse range of human activities, creations, and expressions that are appealing or attractive to the senses or have some significance to the mind of an individual. The word "art" may be used to cover all or any of the arts, including music, literature and other forms. It is most often used to refer specifically to the visual arts, including media such as painting, sculpture, and printmaking.
Traditionally the term art was used to refer to any skill or mastery. (Some people still believe this way)
Art is basically something created by a person. Made with the intention of stimulating the human senses (something of beauty most of the time). Producing emotions and/or ideas. Able to illustrate abstract thought and its expressions. Bringing out buried emotions in it's viewer. Besides this, there is no general agreed-upon definition of art.
It seems that art is not only something made from a master of a craft. A graduate of an art school. But anyone that has made something that causes reactions from others. It does seem the best reaction that makes art what it is, is it's ability to cause someone to purchase it.
Sometimes all that is necessary is the fact that an artist is HOT and everyone MUST own something by that person. Maybe the definition of Art is very simple then. Something someone created "as art" and it sells. I've noticed folks that arrogantly call themselves artists and go around making claims of doing better than others, are the ones that not only sell their work, but for higher prices. So now not only is Art something that sells, it is also judged on how much it brings in. Honestly, I've seen lots of great Art by elementary children that have done work far greater than some of those arrogant assholes.
Call me old fashioned, but I'm not impressed by what someone sells there pieces for. Not when I've seen equally good work out there by people that just did get the same "leg up" the other person may have gotten. There is a world of snobbery out there. I just wonder how many people see big price tags on art and all of a sudden become artists. But hey, it doesn't matter, because if their work sells, in this day and age, it must be art.
