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[[Image:Clausell Study.jpg|right|Joaquin Clausell Study]]

[[Image:Clausell Study.jpg|right|Joaquin Clausell Study]]

'''Art''' is a term used to describe objects or ideas that are creative in origin or design. ''[[The Art of War]]'' by [[Sun-tzu]], for example, denotes creativity in warfare.

'''Art''' is a term used to describe objects or ideas that are creative in origin or design. It is typically defined as the conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of [[beauty]], specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.<ref>American Heritage Dictionary</ref>

''[[The arts]]'' is a term broader than "''art''", which usually means the visual arts (fine art and decorative art). ''The arts'' encompasses visual arts, performing arts ([[Music]] and [[dance]]), language arts ([[Literature]]) and culinary arts. The major general surveys on topics in the fine arts are [[painting]], [[sculpture]], [[drawing]], [[photography]] and [[architecture]].

 

 

''[[The arts]]'' is a term broader than "''art''", which usually means the visual arts (fine art and decorative art). ''The arts'' encompasses visual arts, performing arts ([[Music]] and [[dance]]), language arts ([[Literature]]) and culinary arts.  

 

''The major general surveys on topics in the fine arts are [[painting]], [[sculpture]], [[drawing]], [[photography]] and [[architecture]].'' Columbia Encyclopedia. 

==Liberalism and art==

==Liberalism and art==

Liberals use art to express their political views, hoping to gain extra protection for their political speech by claiming that it is not really political but merely "artistic expression". This has been used to defend hate speech in the case of an art exhibit in the 1980s which invited museum goers to step on an American Flag and then record their opinions in a journal. It has also been used in an image of the Virgin Mary studded with close-ups of the human vulva (not widely reported) and bits of dung (trumpeted far and wide).  

Liberals use art to express their political views, hoping to gain extra protection for their political speech by claiming that it is not really political but merely "artistic expression". This has been used to defend hate speech in the case of an art exhibit in the 1980s which invited museum goers to step on an American Flag and then record their opinions in a journal. It has also been used in an image of the Virgin Mary studded with close-ups of the human vulva and bits of dung.  

== See also ==

== See also ==