What is Art?

             Art can be virtually anything, so how do we know what’s art and what’s not? Some believe that art should be an amazingly beautiful work that has a tremendous impression on you because of its immense beauty. This idea that art is suppose to be beautiful is the concept of aesthetics. So if art is suppose to be beautiful then what about Yoko Ono’s artwork One Piece?

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            When talking about Yoko Ono’s One Piece we should also consider the idea of ethics and how ethics affects art. When an artist decides to create an artwork like One Piece 95% of the artists are concerned with ethics. They are worried if it will be accepted within society. So Yoko Ono’s One Piece is considered art because art is not just beauty but it is also about conceptualizing. Conceptual art is where the idea behind an art piece is more important then the object itself. It the object isn’t beautiful but it makes you think then that is art! Art doesn’t necessarily need to be beautiful but as long as it makes you think about something then the artist has done their job. Not all art will make you think because some art is just meant to look beautiful and that’s it but most of the time an artist are trying to deliver a message just like in design.