BURGOS, MARLO ANTHONY L.

201211624 -5TH YEAR

ART:
1. The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically
in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated
primarily for their beauty or emotional power.
2. Works produced by human creative skill and imagination. creative activity
resulting in the production of paintings, drawings, or sculpture. the various
branches of creative activity, such as painting, music, literature, and dance.
3. subjects of study primarily concerned with the processes and products of human
creativity and social life, such as languages, literature, and history (as contrasted
with scientific or technical subjects). "the belief that the arts and sciences were
incompatible"
4. skill at doing a specified thing, typically one acquired through practice. "the art
of conversation"
ART BY WIKIPEDIA
While Tolstoy's basic conception of art is broad and amoral, his idea of "good" art is
strict and moralistic, based on what he sees as the function of art in the
development of humanity:
just as in the evolution of knowledge - that is, the forcing out and supplanting of
mistaken and unnecessary knowledge by truer and more necessary knowledge - so
the evolution of feelings takes place by means of art, replacing lower feelings, less
kind and less needed for the good of humanity, by kinder feelings, more needed for
that good. This is the purpose of art.
Art is a diverse range of human activities in creating visual, auditory or performing
artifacts artworks, expressing the author's imaginative or technical skill, intended
to be appreciated for their 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.
The oldest form of art is visual arts, which include 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 essentialin a way that they usually are not in a painting,
for example. Music, theatre, 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. 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 the decorative
or applied arts.