Art is something that others cannot understand. The photography teacher said: Naked things are art. The painting teacher said: What do you know? Is this called art?

Art has no generally accepted definition so far. It is generally believed that art is a special way for human beings to grasp and reflect the world with emotion and imagination as their characteristics, and to express their views on the world and themselves and their views on the relationship between the two. It reproduces reality and expresses emotional ideals through aesthetic creation activities, and realizes the mutual objectification of aesthetic subjects and objects in imagination. In layman's terms, art is the organic product of people's knowledge, emotions, ideals, and ideas combined with psychological activities. It is an image expression of people's real life and spiritual world.

Art is the organic product of the comprehensive psychological activities of people's knowledge, emotions, ideals, and ideas. It is an image expression of people's real life and spiritual world. Art belongs to the category of entertainment and game culture. It is a cultural phenomenon created by people in order to satisfy their need for comfort for subjective shortcomings and the behavioral needs of their emotional organs. The essential characteristic of this cultural phenomenon is to use language to create virtual human beings. real life. Art is a cultural form for people to communicate emotions and ideas. People communicate emotions and ideas based on language. Therefore, the basis for art is human language.

Art can be defined as "human technology and its products whose main purpose is to create beauty." Art requires technology, but it is not technology. But the question that follows is "What kind of technology is art?" The ancient Greeks introduced the concept of "beauty", but the division of technology did not become simpler because of the introduction of this concept. On the contrary, she Becoming more complex than ever. Because explaining "beauty" itself is no simpler than explaining art.

"Modern Chinese Dictionary" said: Art is "a social ideology that uses images to reflect reality, but is more typical than objective."

"Art" (ART) in the West The original meaning of Wenli is "man-made". Epistemology believes that art is the "reflection" of nature in the human mind and is an ideology; practice theory believes that art is man's processing and transformation of nature and is a kind of labor production, so art has the title of "second nature" say. Human labor is to create material wealth and spiritual wealth. All art must have a creative subject and a creative object. Therefore, it requires both human and material conditions. Human conditions include the artist’s natural talents, life experience and cultural upbringing; material conditions include social types, the spirit of the times, national characteristics, social realities and problems, all of which need to be continuously processed and transformed; in addition, users must be added. Tools and media for processing and transformation. Therefore, art cannot be separated from people or objects. Like beauty, it is also a unity of subjectivity and objectivity.

The 1999 edition of "Cihai" explained the connotation and extension of art:

"A special way for human beings to grasp the world with emotions and imagination as characteristics, that is, through aesthetic creation Activities reproduce reality and express emotional ideals, and realize the mutual objectification of aesthetic subjects and aesthetic objects in imagination. Specifically, they are image reflections of people's real life and spiritual world, and are also the comprehensive psychological activities of artists' perceptions, emotions, ideals, and ideas. Organic product. As a social ideology, art mainly meets people's various aesthetic needs and plays a subtle role in social life, especially in the human spiritual field. According to different means and methods of expression, it can be divided into performing arts. (Music, dance), plastic arts (painting, sculpture, architecture), language arts (literature), and comprehensive arts (drama, film and television), which can be divided into time art (music) and space art (painting) according to the spatiotemporal nature of the performance. , sculpture, architecture), and time-space juxtaposition art (literature, drama, film and television)."