Art history

What is art?
It is very difficult to point our finger at something and say "this is definitely not art"
This is because art is very easily disputed. The word art itself has meaning so narrow yet so broad. It is narrow in a sense that it summarises down to words: form, and content.
However it is very broad because the defining of the two words form and content itself is large.

Form is the physical being of the artist's creation. A vase, a painting, a poem, a thought, a play. Everything that has been created is art. The physical form of these products contain aesthetic properties that are pleasent to the eyes.

Content is what the artist wanted to potray. It is the concept that backs up the physical being of the art. Therefore it is the story behind the physical form.

Therefore Art is basically a physical product with a story backing up its existence.

An example is my work,

Though it may seem like just any other stuff toy, the stuff toy that i designed and created myself is set apart from others by the content, the story that lies behind this stuff toy.
It tells of a story of a young girl, so different from others that she is discriminated. This changes when they begin to see behind the weird exterior.

As such, this is an art piece because it has physical aesthetics and a story behind it.

I have also come to realise that with an interesting concept, the art piece no matter how aesthetically unpleasent can become rather pleasent.