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Art, though by a simple definition is the expression of creative skill through a visual medium such as painting or sculpture, has many definitions and representations. Art in itself can be the process of the making. What can qualify as art and what are the attributes of art? From the very beginning of time art has been created, philosophers have been for centuries trying to describe what art is and what it means to society. The difference between what is considered to be a work of art and an ordinary object has always been debated and in controversy. ... Danto’s Madonna of the Future, he distinguishes the differences in works of art, the definition of art and how it is viewed now in contemporary times compared to other art theorists’ such as Ananda K. ...
Art has a separate identity from other objects in daily life, “ but the Greeks evidently did not require a special word for designating artworks, which they nevertheless undertook to account for in the grandest metaphysical terms” (Danto, xvii ). In today’s modern society, we have been trying to make art a normative concept, Danto states that art cannot be both art and bad (Danto, 1). In Maritain’s Creative Intuition in Art and Poetry, Greek art sought after beauty and in the most “conscious and purposeful manner, a liberation of the transcendent value of beauty” (Maritain, 20). Art in this sense pertains to the making of the work and not only to the work itself. Art, in modern terms like that of the Greeks, is almost synonymous to that of the word beauty.
During the mid 19th century questions pertaining to the boundaries of the concept of art. Society had major problems determining what was art and what was not. Photography was not considered art during this time.
Approximate Word count = 1474
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