According to dictionary.com, art is defined as skilled workmanship, execution, or agency as distinguished from nature.”(www.dictionary.com)

Thefreedictionary.com defines art as “human effort to imitate, supplement, alter or counteract the work of nature.” (www.thefreedictionary.com).

I translate this into man taking what is naturally created and either replicates, builds upon, changes in some form or completely opposes it with works of their own.


Painting http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/starry-night/gogh.starry-night.jpg

The Starry Night, Vincent van Gogh (ibiblio.org)

Vincent van Gogh’s Starry Night, c.1889 is a painting of a night sky filled with clouds, blazing stars and a bright crescent moon. All of the features of this painting are quite overstated, but still it is somewhat familiar to me. As you view this painting, your eyes are constantly moving about and although the sky seems to burst with activity, there is something very calming about......

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Title: Understanding And Evaluating Art
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