Art

Art is a broad and evolving domain that encompasses activities and products through which humans express imaginative or technical skill. It includes visual arts, performing arts, literary arts, and increasingly digital forms. While definitions vary across cultures, art is generally intended to communicate ideas, emotions, or worldviews, or to explore aesthetic experience.

Forms and media: Visual arts such as painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, and design; performing arts including music, dance, and theatre; literary arts such as poetry and prose; and digital and multimedia works. Artists work with media and techniques ranging from traditional materials to contemporary technologies.

Functions: Art can document or interpret reality, challenge social norms, commemorate events, preserve memory, entertain, or provide spiritual or ritual meaning. It often invites interpretation and dialogue between creator and audience.

Practice and institutions: Artists develop concepts through methods such as sketching, experimentation, collaboration. Works are produced, critiqued, exhibited, collected, or performed in galleries, museums, theatres, concert halls, schools, and online platforms. Evaluation of art varies with cultural context and individual taste.

History and context: Artistic practice has deep historical roots in many cultures, from prehistoric and classical to modern and contemporary periods. Movements such as Renaissance, Romanticism, Modernism, and contemporary experimental practices reflect shifts in technology, society, and thinking about representation.