Saturday, February 23, 2008

The Definition of Art

Art is one of the constructs that man developed to support values that exist apart from what he considered necessary for his physical survival or comfort—that is, those objects or experiences that produce as aesthetic response. The term art identifies certain objects or experiences as valuable because they are capable of eliciting human responses or judgments about qualities other than those normally associated with morality or the technologically purposeful. These qualities determine the aesthetic characteristics of an object or experience and, when recognized, cause the aesthetic reaction.

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