What is art? From the time we are young to our adulthood our definition of art is morphed. We all start of by finger painting, then slowly transitioning into coloring books, and finally by our teenage years, most of us have a firm understanding on how to draw many everyday objects. Webster's dictionary defines it as "The expression or application of human creative skills and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture,...."I, however, see art as something that cannot be defined with limitations. Art composes of drawings, songs, designing, and even the stuffed animal you may make for your significant other. They may not fit the traditional definition of the word "art", however, all of them compose or create something merely by using their instinct and talent. Creativity is what makes art, art. Each of the listed occupation integrates a great deal of creativity in their everyday profession.
Classifying something as "not being art" is a harder task than saying something is art. I feel there cannot be a criteria of what is dubbed art and what is not due to the general vagueness of art. Since art can be classified as something a toddler makes to a painting that gets sold for millions of dollars, it is a pretty flexible and loose definition. However, just because the creator dubs his work as art, does not make it art. If I were to present a rock in class covered in wax. Even though the creator may have intended this to be "art," it was not accepted by anyone else, therefore not making it art. On the same level, notebook drawings, scribbles are not art because no one else accepts it as such. Art is only real if a group, or a person other than the creator, willing accepts it as art.
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