What you believe ART is.

[ryan mcshane]

What do you artists believe art is?
I wouldn't call my self an artist yet, but Im just curious to what everyone might think art is.
I think it is expressing your feelings and emotions through a media.

[SMILEFACE]

haha i think any an everything can be art the way i werk' live' type this message' how i talk to people' the art of how i eat everything haha

[Kaycy is tanning]

I don't want to be called an artist, don't throw me in the same bracket of musicians or movie stars. Don't like the term conceprt artist either. Draftsman or painter is fine. It's more a personal thing because when translated, "artiest" here means more someone silly, like from a circus. It can be used as a slightly derogatory term here too, like if a kid is standing on his head, you can use it..it doesn't mean the same thing everywhere in the world heh.

[ryan mcshane]

according to dictionary.com
artist means.

artist
1581, "one who cultivates one of the fine arts," from M.Fr. artiste, from It. artista, from M.L. artista, from L. ars (see art). Originally used especially of the arts presided over by the Muses (history, poetry, comedy, tragedy, music, dancing, astronomy), but also used 17c. for "one skilled in any art or craft" (including professors, surgeons, craftsmen, cooks). Now especially of "one who practices the arts of design or visual arts" (a sense first attested 1747). Artistic first recorded 1753; artistry 1868.

artist
1.

One, such as a painter, sculptor, or writer, who is able by virtue of imagination and talent or skill to create works of aesthetic value, especially in the fine arts.
2.

A person whose work shows exceptional creative ability or skill: You are an artist in the kitchen.
3.

One, such as an actor or singer, who works in the performing arts.
4.

One who is adept at an activity, especially one involving trickery or deceit: a con artist.

artist
1. a person who produces works in any of the arts that are primarily subject to aesthetic criteria.
2. a person who practices one of the fine arts, esp. a painter or sculptor.
3. a person whose trade or profession requires a knowledge of design, drawing, painting, etc.: a commercial artist.
4. a person who works in one of the performing arts, as an actor, musician, or singer; a public performer: a mime artist; an artist of the dance.
5. a person whose work exhibits exceptional skill.
6. a person who is expert at trickery or deceit: He's an artist with cards.
7. Obsolete. an artisan.

and art

art
1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.
2. the class of objects subject to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.
3. a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.
4. the fine arts collectively, often excluding architecture: art and architecture.
5. any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art.
6. (in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story?
7. the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling.
8. the craft or trade using these principles or methods.
9. skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.
10. a branch of learning or university study, esp. one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.
11. arts,
a. (used with a singular verb) the humanities: a college of arts and sciences.
b. (used with a plural verb) liberal arts.
12. skilled workmanship, execution, or agency, as distinguished from nature.
13. trickery; cunning: glib and devious art.
14. studied action; artificiality in behavior.
15. an artifice or artful device: the innumerable arts and wiles of politics.
16. Archaic. science, learning, or scholarship

Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature.

[PieterV]

Really not to be disrespectful or anything, but do we really need yet another topic about this?

[Leonor]

Ayn Rand got a good definition of art:
"Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist’s metaphysical value-judgments."

I've also hear of art defined of the study of objective beauty.

I think both definitions are a limiting in that art cannot just be a portrayal of what is good and what life should be. How could we make video games like that? We need to portray our monsters and our villains without being accused that they are our personal value judements on our view of how mankind should be or a statement on what is beautiful or some such.

So I expand the definition thus to suit my own purposes:

Art is either a snapshot of something interesting in reality, an objective study of beauty, a recreation of reality for moral evaluation or story telling, or a creation in reality in order to improve it.

I think that includes all the arts, such as Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Dance, Theatre, Cinema, Animation, Comics and Computer Games.

[Farvus]

Please. Not again this question.

[ryan mcshane]

sorry i didn't realise that this topic has been made before,,

[dashinvaine]

Art is like insanity, one of those things that professionals in the field avoid devising precise definitions and criteria for.

[TASmith]

Art is magic. Good art puts a spell on you.

[ErikStorstein]

Art is.

[Dizon]

Art can be many things but to me Art is fantasy. What I mean by that is that we can pretty much do anything we want it our artwork. Our own fantasies fulfilled.

[Elwell]

I wouldn't call my self an artist yet,
Obviously not. Once you're at the stage were you can, this question will hold absolutely zero interest for you.

[ryan mcshane]

@ Elwell, I was only curious to wonder what everyone thinks what art is, its just interesting to know other peoples views on things. that's all

[tobbA]

Everyone who paints is an artist. Just like anyone who plays football is a football-player. But some are better than others...