What Is Art:

Introduction and Assumption

What is Art?
• Art is something that is perennially around us.

• Some people may deny having to do with arts but it is

indisputable that life presents us with many forms of and
opportunities for communion with the arts.
The word ART comes from the word the ancient Latin,“ars”
which means a “craft or specialized form of skill, like
carpentry or smithying or surgery” (Collingwood, 1938)

Ars in Medieval Latin came to mean something different. It

meant “any special form of book-learning, such as
grammar or logic, magic or astrology” (Collingwood, 1938)
Human history has witnessed how man evolved not just physically
but also culturally, from cave painters to men of exquisite
paintbrush users of the present.

Vincent Van Gogh

Art piece: Starry Night