Mendoza, Angelica P.

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What is Art?
According to Aristotle, The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance, just like beauty, it often taken to be the measure of quality for art. Beauty is not something that "exists" objectively but something that "is felt." Beauty is determined when the subject feels joy through the stimulation received from the object and judges that stimulation as such to be emotional. Art is the activity of creating or appreciating beauty. The human mind has the three faculties of intellect, emotion, and will, corresponding to which there are different areas of cultural activity. As intellectual activities, there are philosophy, science, etc.; as volitional activities, there are moral conduct, ethical conduct, etc.; and as emotional activity, there is art. Thus, art can be defined as "the emotional activity of creating or appreciating beauty." As a person, I aspire to create things that can be either ugly or beautiful, and therefore, affecting people positively or negatively, I think we must be aware and take responsibility for how we make people feel with our art; do we want to harm them? Or create positive feelings into them? What are we bringing to the world? By reflecting the ugly in life, we eliminate the ideals that make our life happy, we surround ourselves with what is opposed to beauty and our quality of life suffers from it.