The definition of art

Art is a kind of culture that reflects reality, entrusts emotion, shapes image and creates atmosphere through some means or media.

Art is a social ideology that reflects reality with images but is more typical than reality. Good art often has aesthetic value or philosophical value, but it is not necessarily entertaining at the mass level. Compared with science, art is inseparable from the expression of emotions. In ancient China, it mainly refers to six arts and various skills, such as Shu Shu Fang Shu, or especially Jing Shu. The language "The Biography of Fu Zhanchuan in the Later Han Dynasty": "In the first year of Yonghe, Zhao Wuji and Yilang Huang revised the Five Classics, Hundred Schools and Shu Shu."

Art is usually expressed through language, writing, painting, music and body. Modern art includes language, art, performance, comprehensive art and so on. Art is an important supplementary means of language, just like in a speech, we will use loud voices to represent anger, laughter to represent happiness, and dance to represent anxiety or other feelings to convey to each other. Therefore, every work of art should have its unique appeal, which is the vitality of art. At the same time, art also refers to the ways and methods of creation.

Characteristics of art

1, art is technology.

Generally speaking, in the west, the connotation of the word art has changed from a technical process with knowledge and rules to a spiritual aesthetic activity relying on inspiration and intuition. Among them, art, as a technical activity with rational knowledge, has formed a basic concept in art theory after a long development, while as a spiritual activity that brings emotional pleasure, it is a concept that arose in the middle of18th century and continues to be controversial in later generations.

2. Art is formal.

Art is always presented to people in some form. These forms are usually embodied in the characteristics or factors of the composition and layout of artistic works in plane and space or time, and are often attributed to mathematical or psychological principles such as "golden section", "harmony" and "gestalt". Such a formal feature or factor is the "form" of art, and this formal representation can arouse people's sensory pleasure.

3. Art is aesthetic.

From the modern definition, the aesthetics of art refers to the attribute that works of art can arouse people's aesthetic feeling and be appreciated. It comes from the convenience and comfort brought by man-made tools and their products with formal characteristics, and is also the result of original thinking and its transformation. In addition, in ancient China and the West, "beauty" has a tradition of being synonymous with "goodness".