The+Meaning+of+Art

According to this article, art is the observations man made about nature, function, use, qualities of beings, and their symbols. In art there are two categories, mechanical and liberal art. Mechanical art consists of machinery, and almost anything that is functional. Liberal art consists of essays, books, anything that has to do with literature, and that seems as if it has very little function. When I learned about art, I was told that art was everything. Everything had to be designed and sketched out at some point before it was fully created. Also instead of mechanical and liberal, I was told of fine art and craft. Fine art consists of paintings, sculptures, anything that is meant to be looked at and admired. You would usually find this type of art in galleries. On the other side you have craft. Craft is functional art such as a basket, a car, anything that you would buy to use in your life. Art is interpreted in many different ways. It can be seen as all the same or it can be separated into many different categories. Some people group art as a whole, as everything around us, while other people see art separated into different categories such as mechanical, liberal, fine, and craft. Also art is open to all interpretations. You may see a piece of art as it literally is portrayed while someone else may see it as a symbolic piece that represents a generation. Both this article and what I have been taught are similar in the ideas of separating art into different categories and judging it based on its category. If you saw art as fine and not craft, then you might believe that it is very expensive and too delicate to fully appreciate it. Art is always your own interpretation on what you believe it is not what everyone else sees it as.