Understanding art

Understanding Art

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DATE \ "MMMM d , yyyy " June 12 , 2009

According to Gaut (2000 , Dissanayake (1990 ) and Dutton (2006 ) Art is defined as the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions . It encompasses a diverse range of human activities , creations , and modes of expression , including music and literature

Conventionalist definitions of art come in two varieties , institutional and historical . Institutionalist conventionalism , or institutionalism a synchronic view , typically hold that to be a

work of art is to be an artifact of a kind created , by an artist , to be presented to an art world public . Historical conventionalism a diachronic view , holds that artworks necessarily stand in an art-historical relation to some set of earlier artworks (Goehr , L . 1994

Basing on the two definitions above Painting is the art as it involves the process of applying paint , pigment , color or other medium to a surface . In art , the expression describes mutually the work and the outcome , which is called a work of art . A painting is a means of expression , and the forms are plentiful . Picture , composition or abstraction in addition to other aesthetics may well serve to manifest the communicative and conceptual objective of the practitioner Sculpture is the act and art of making three-dimensional works of sculpture such as statues . A statue is an image such as a person or animal that is sculpted in a firm substance . For example the statue of liberty...