What is Art? [View all]

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A thing or experience created by a human being with some intention (not necessarily the sole intention) that it be experienced by some real or hypothetical other human being as beautiful.

(And beautiful is, of course, a lot harder to define!)

Beyond that simple definition we get into modifiers of art... great art, bad art, high art, low art, and so on.

It is best to not fetishize art. A decorated cake is certainly art, as is a typical item of clothing or furniture. These things may not always be exultant all-caps ART, but they are surely art.

A definition of art that required that art have great aesthetic merit would render the phrase, "bad art" an oxymoron.