1. What is Art? Take a minute to write down your own definition of Art.

2. Is This Art?

3. How About This?

5. Art inspires Art

6. What is artistic about these?

7. Is This Art?

8. How about this?

9. Artists are Inspired by all that is around them.

10. Old Inspires New

11. Architects and designers once held high positions in Greek and Roman Society. To be chief Architect was a great honor and a position of great authority

12. Is this Art?

13. How about this?

14. Sometimes Artists must be engineers too

15. Art is form meeting function

16. Art is Everywhere

17. How many artists can you point out here?

18. Is photography art?

19. Art in Nature

20. Theatre and Film—Try to name all the artists in these artforms.

21. Art for the senses

22. The Dictionary definitions Although today the word art usually refers to the visual arts, the concept of what art is has continuously changed over centuries. Perhaps the most concise definition is its broadest ART—Art refers to all creative human endeavors, excluding actions directly related to survival and reproduction. From a wide perspective, art is simply a generic term for the creative impulse, out of which sprang all other human pursuits such as science via alchemy, and religion via shaminism. VISUAL ART —The area of visual arts and design is extremely broad. Essentially, it is any art that you can see, excluding performance. Such forms of art fall into other categories such as theatre, music, or opera, although there is really no clear boundary. VISUAL ART —The area of visual arts and design is extremely broad. Essentially, it is any art that you can see, excluding performance. Such forms of art fall into other categories such as theatre, music, or opera, although there is really no clear boundary.