what is ART !!!!

WHAT THE HELL IS ART?????

"ART has not always been what we think it is today. An object regarded as Art today may not have been supposed as such when it was first made, nor was the person who made it automatically observed as an artist. Both the notion of "art" and the idea of the "artist" are look upon as modern terms."

ART lacks a suitable definition.” the use of skill and imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others"
The idea of an object being a "work of art" materialized, together with the idea of the Artist, in the 15th and 16th centuries in Italy.

BUT how did Art become distinguished from the decorative arts and crafts? How and why is an artist poles apart from a craftsperson? “In the Ancient World and Middle Ages the word we would translate as 'art' today was applied to any activity governed by rules. Painting and sculpture were included among a number of human activities, such as shoemaking and weaving, which today we would call crafts. “

ACCORDING to William Rubin, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, "there is no single definition of art." The art historian Robert Rosenblum believes that "the idea of defining art is so remote at this time" that he doesn't think "anyone would dare to do it." Art historian Thomas McEvilley agrees that today "more or less anything can be designated as art." Anything could be art.

NON-artists, are no longer capable to say whether it is art or not. But at the same time, we are no longer comfortable with dismissing it as art because it fails to fit what we think art should be (whatever that is). We struggle with this because we have been taught that art is important and we're unwilling to face up to the recently revealed insight that art in fact has no "essence." When all is said and done, "art" remains significant to human beings and the idea that now anything can be art, and that no form of art is truer than any other, strikes me as intolerable.