Can art be defined, and how?

I know of a few prominent definitions:





*It "makes special" (Ellen Dissanayake).


*It is characterised by "family resemblences" (works of art have things in common with other works, but no work of art has every one of the things).


*It is what the art world says is art.





Any others?

Can art be defined, and how?
This question borders on knowledge and meaning of art.





Almost all artists know about the elements and principles of art -- they are the knowledge. As for meaning, that would be subjected to a number of factors between the artist, the art as presented, the audience and cultural background. In other words, subjective definition varies.
Reply:art is very simply your vision of the world
Reply:Art is co creation with the cosmos.


Poet Mohit.K.Misra author of Ponder Awhile
Reply:It can be defined by the philosophy it depicts: Romanticism; cubism; Impressionism; Baroque; Dadism; etc.


Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy that attempts to determine whether the artist or the art properly does what the artist wants it to do, e.g., be "impressionistic," or depict something according to "Romanticism."





"It is not journalistic information or scientific education or moral guidance that man seeks from a work of art (though these may be involved as secondary consequences), but the fulfillment of a more profound need: a confirmation of his view of existence—a confirmation, not in the sense of resolving cognitive doubts, but in the sense of permitting him to contemplate his abstractions outside his own mind, in the form of existential concretes."





“Art and Sense of Life,” The Romantic Manifesto, 38.

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