Question many have asked; What is Art?
The majority of people believe that art is the expression of human creative mind using personal skills and imaginations, and put them in forms of visual work such as painting, sculpture and music, or even in writing and performance. Mainly, art is to cultivate the mental powers for sociable communication, to produce works of wonderment to share, to express inner thoughts, emotional inspiration and feelings as well opinions of the surrounding. For the fact that art has been changing over time so is defining it, proves the point. Yes, art has existed virtually in every known human culture. Some definitions of art give priority to those facts that reflect art’s universality and continuity explaining the aesthetic phenomena. We note that many things besides artworks, for example, natural entities (sunrise, sunsets, landscapes, flowers, shadows), human beings and abstract entities (theories, proofs, mathematical entities) have interesting aesthetic properties. Apparently, each artwork is characterized by a single type of property. Some of these properties are expressive properties, formal properties and representational properties. Notably, great philosophers analyze the key theoretical components of their definitions of art in distinctive and subtle ways. Conclusion, conventionalist definitions whether institutional, philosophical or historical have difficulty to answer the question or define art’s universality and that it truly is.
Years ago, I was asked this question. In simple words, my answer was ”Art is to love”. As I only sense the great love have been put into this marvelous universe for us to enjoy while we still and endlessly needing to discover and learn about it. On this link was the interview. http://www.public-republic.net/mona-youssef-art-is-to-love
