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1. What is art ?
Art in any form is an expression or application of human creativity, skill, and imagination.
Many of the arts are experienced visually but can also be audible or enjoyed through sensory
touch. Arts were traditionally appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power but are
now often used for political expression or social commentary.

2. OTHER DEFINTIONS OF ART :
Etymology :
The term “art” is related to the Latin word “ars” meaning, art, skill, or craft. The first known
use of the word comes from 13th-century manuscripts. However, the word art and its many
variants (artem, eart, etc.) have probably existed since the founding of Rome.
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The definition of art has been debated for centuries among philosophers.”What is art?” is the
most basic question in the philosophy of aesthetics, which really means, “How do we determine
what is defined as art?” This implies two subtexts: the essential nature of art, and its social
importance (or lack of it). The definition of art has generally fallen into three categories
representation, expression, and form .
Philosophy of Art

3.  Art as Representation or Mimesis. Plato first developed the idea of art as “mimesis,” which,
in Greek, means copying or imitation. For this reason, the primary meaning of art was, for
centuries, defined as the representation or replication of something that is beautiful or
meaningful.
 Art as Expression of Emotional Content. Expression became important during the
Romantic movement with artwork expressing a definite feeling, as in the sublime or
dramatic.
 Art as Form. Immanuel Kant(1724–1804) was one of the most influential of the early
theorists toward the end of the 18th century. He believed that art should not have a concept
but should be judged only on its formal qualities because the content of a work of art is not of
aesthetic interest. Formal qualities became particularly important when art became more
abstract in the 20th century, and the principles of art and design (balance, rhythm, harmony,
unity) were used to define and assess art.

4. What Are the 7 Different Forms of Art?
Specific mediums and forms of artistic expression have changed throughout human history, but for the most
part, art falls into one of the following seven classical forms. Each different form of art is experienced differently
and affects our emotions and feelings.
•Painting
•Sculpture
•Literature
•Architecture
•Cinema
•Music
•Theater

5. Talk about Painting
 Painting is a form of expressing your artistic vision using paint as the primary medium. An
artist who worked predominantly in this medium is known as a painter and develops their work
by applying different colored paints onto a solid surface, usually a canvas, to produce a work of
art
 Painting is what most minds jump to when we think of art. Painting is the most
commonly taught art medium in childhood education
 Paints are generally oil, acrylic, or watercolor, but you can also paint with pigments, dyes,
and inks or incorporate other materials.
 The paint application comes in many forms; it may be brushed on, smeared, dabbed, or
splashed. Painting is one of the ancient forms of art, with cave paintings dating back to
prehistoric times.
are classified by both the subject matter, style, and genre. Painting subjects usually fall into still
life, landscape, seascape, portraiture, or abstract. There are many painting styles, including
modernist, expressionist, classical, surreal, cubist, Chinese style, abstract, impressionist, and

6. Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa,
1503–19
Painted between 1503 and 1517, Da Vinci’s alluring portrait
has been dogged by two questions since the day it was made:
Who’s the subject and why is she smiling? A number of
theories for the former have been proffered over the years:
That she’s the wife of the Florentine merchant Francesco di
Bartolomeo del Giocondo (ergo, the work’s alternative
title, La Gioconda); that she's Leonardo’s mother, Caterina,
conjured from Leonardo's boyhood memories of her; and
finally, that it's a self-portrait in drag. As for that famous
smile, its enigmatic quality has driven people crazy for
centuries. Whatever the reason, Mona Lisa’s look of
preternatural calm comports with the idealized landscape
behind her, which dissolves into the distance through
Leonardo’s use of atmospheric perspective.

7. Vincent van Gogh, The Starry
Night, 1889
Vincent Van Gogh’s most popular
painting, The Starry Night was
created by Van Gogh at the asylum in
Saint-Rémy, where he’d committed
himself in 1889. Indeed, The Starry
Night seems to reflect his turbulent
state of mind at the time, as the night
sky comes alive with swirls and orbs
of frenetically applied brush marks
springing from the yin and yang of
his personal demons and awe of
nature.

8. Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the
Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884–1886
Georges Seurat’s masterpiece, evoking the Paris of La
Belle Epoque, is actually depicting a working-class
suburban scene well outside the city’s center. Seurat
often made this milieu his subject, which differed from
the bourgeois portrayals of his Impressionist
contemporaries. Seurat abjured the capture-the-moment
approach of Manet, Monet and Degas, going instead for
the sense of timeless permanence found in Greek
sculpture. And that is exactly what you get in this frieze-
like processional of figures whose stillness is in keeping
with Seurat’s aim of creating a classical landscape in
modern form.

9. Johannes Vermeer, Girl
with a Pearl Earring,
1665
Johannes Vermeer’s 1665
study of a young woman is
startlingly real and startlingly
modern, almost as if it were a
photograph. This gets into
the debate over whether or
not Vermeer employed a pre-
photographic device called a
camera obscura to create the
image. Leaving that aside, the
sitter is unknown, though it’s
been speculated that she
might have been Vermeer's
maid.
He portrays her looking over
her shoulder, locking her eyes with
the viewer as if attempting to
establish an intimate connection
across the centuries. Technically
speaking, Girl isn’t a portrait, but
rather an example of the Dutch
genre called a tronie—a headshot
meant more as still life of facial
features than as an attempt to
capture a likeness.