Lesson 2 Defining Art

"Many arguments about whether to consider something art or not, wind up revolving around how we define art. By its broadest definition, art is the product or process of the successful handling of knowledge, most often using a set of skills. In other words, a successful art object is made by a skillful knowledgeable person. However, in the modern use of the word, which rose to prominence after 1750, “art” is commonly understood to be skill used to produce an aesthetic result."