Art is a highly diverse range of human activities engaged in creating visual,
auditory, or performed artifacts— artworks—that express the author’s
imaginative or technical skill, and are intended to be appreciated for their
beauty or emotional power.
The oldest documented forms of art are visual arts, which include images or
objects in fields like painting, sculpture, printmaking , photography, and other
visual media . Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts;
however, like the decorative arts, it involves the creation of objects where the
practical considerations of use are essential, in a way that they usually are
not in another visual art, like a painting
Art may be characterized in terms of mimesis (its representation of reality),
expression, communication of emotion, or other qualities. Though the
definition of what constitutes art is disputed and has changed over time,
general descriptions center on the idea of imaginative or technical skill
stemming from human agency and creation. When it comes to visually
identifying a work of art, there is no single set of values or aesthetic traits. A
Baroque painting will not necessarily share much with a contemporary
performance piece, but they are both considered art..