Art is a diverse range of human activities and the products of those activities; this article focuses primarily on the visual arts, which includes the creation of images or objects in fields including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and other visual media. Architecture is often included as one of the visual arts; however, like the decorative arts, it involves the creation of objects where the practical considerations of use are essential—in a way that they usually are not in a painting, for example. Music, theatre, film, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature and other media such as interactive media, are included in a broader definition of art or the arts.[1] Until the 17th century, art referred to any skill or mastery and was not differentiated from crafts or sciences, but in modern usage the fine arts, where aesthetic considerations are paramount, are distinguished from acquired skills in general, such as the decorative or applied arts.
藝術是多元化的人類活動和這些活動的產品;本文主要側重於視覺藝術，其中包括的領域包括建立圖像或物體的繪畫，雕塑，版畫，攝影，和其他視覺媒體。架構是常被作為視覺藝術之一，但是，像裝飾藝術。，它涉及創建對象，其中使用的實際考慮是必要的方式，他們通常不在一幅畫，例如音樂，戲劇，電影，舞蹈，和其他表演藝術，以及文學和其他媒體等互動媒體，包括在藝術或更寬泛的定義藝術。[ 1 ]直到17世紀，藝術所提述的任何技能或掌握並從沒有區分工藝品或科學，但在現代用法的美術，在那裡美觀的考慮是最重要的，是從總體中獲得的技能，如裝飾性或區分應用藝術。
Within this latter sense, the word art may refer to several things: a study of a creative skill, a process of using the creative skill, a product of the creative skill, or the audience's experience with the creative skill. The creative arts (art as discipline) are a collection of disciplines which produce artworks (art as objects) that are compelled by a personal drive (art as activity) and convey a message, mood, or symbolism for the viewer to interpret (art as experience). Art is something that stimulates an individual's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas through the senses. Artworks can be explicitly made for this purpose or interpreted on the basis of images or objects. Although the application of scientific knowledge to...