What is Art?What is Art?

Take a minute to write down your own definition of Art.Take a minute to write down your own definition of Art.

Is Is This This Art?Art?

How About This?How About This?

Art inspires ArtArt inspires Art

What is artistic about these?What is artistic about these?

Is Is ThisThis Art? Art?

How about this?How about this?

Artists are Inspired Artists are Inspired by all that is by all that is

around them.around them.

Old Inspires NewOld Inspires New

Architects and designers once held high positions in Greek and Architects and designers once held high positions in Greek and Roman Society.Roman Society.

To be chief Architect was a great honor and a position of great authorityTo be chief Architect was a great honor and a position of great authority

Is this Art?Is this Art?

How about this?How about this?

Sometimes Artists must be Sometimes Artists must be engineers tooengineers too

Art is form meeting Art is form meeting functionfunction

Art is Art is EverywhereEverywhere

How many artists can you point How many artists can you point out here?out here?

Is photography art?Is photography art?

Art in NatureArt in Nature

Theatre and Film—Try to name all Theatre and Film—Try to name all the artists in these artforms.the artists in these artforms.

Art for the sensesArt for the senses

The Dictionary definitionsThe Dictionary definitionsAlthough today the word Although today the word artart usually refers to the usually refers to the

visual arts, the concept of what art is has visual arts, the concept of what art is has continuously changed over centuries. Perhaps continuously changed over centuries. Perhaps the most concise definition is its broadestthe most concise definition is its broadest

ARTART—Art refers to all creative human —Art refers to all creative human endeavors, excluding actions directly related to endeavors, excluding actions directly related to survival and reproduction. From a wide survival and reproduction. From a wide perspective, art is simply a generic term for the perspective, art is simply a generic term for the creative impulse, out of which sprang all other creative impulse, out of which sprang all other human pursuits such as science via alchemy, human pursuits such as science via alchemy, and religion via shaminism. and religion via shaminism.

VISUAL ARTVISUAL ART —The area of —The area of visual arts and designvisual arts and design is extremely is extremely broad. Essentially, it is any art that you can see, excluding broad. Essentially, it is any art that you can see, excluding performance. Such forms of art fall into other categories such as performance. Such forms of art fall into other categories such as theatre, music, or opera, although there is really no clear boundary.theatre, music, or opera, although there is really no clear boundary.