-What is art?
-An old conception of art is that it was supposed to be beautiful or represent something. Are there necessary and sufficient conditions for being art?What makes an artistic process artistic?
-Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature ?
-Art refers to a diverse range of human activities, creations, and expressions that are appealing or attractive to the sences or have some significance to the mind of an individual?
-Any photograph, map, graph or illustration?
-We might judge a Lamborghini to be beautiful partly because it is desirable as a status symbol, or we might judge it to be repulsive partly because it signifies for us over-consumption and offends our political or moral values.
-The arts help us to broaden our sympathies and to extend our experience; they enlarge our imaginations, they refine and direct our emotions.
-Human endeavor thought to be aesthetic and have meaning beyond simple description?
-A work of Art is a material object + Y. Y is a change in concept – the material object now in quotation marks, and removed from the material world. The change in Y to an art object is an Ontological change (how it exists), not an institutional one. Y is expressed metaphorically
-The final cause of a thing is the purpose for its existence, and the term fine art is derived from this notion. If the final cause of an artwork is simply the artwork itself, "art for art's sake", and not a means to another end, then that artwork could appropriately be called fine. The closely related concept of beauty is classically defined as "that which when seen, pleases". -Pleasure is the final cause of beauty and thus is not a means to another end, but an end in itself.
-What is art?