Art is an abstract notion, the result of a personal concept, of the work and of its nature. It depends on how the people see the world in their time and space, the world at each age. But, however, it is timeless, because the artworks are interpreted according to each and everyone current value system, concept of aesthetics or the theory of beauty, revaluated all the time. The observer of a work of art becomes, well, an art critic.
Since Greece the art has been linked to nature, which is interpreted more or less idealized or realistic.
Although the form of imitating nature changes over time. However, there has always been a tension between realism and abstraction, between the faithful imitation and idealization more or less simplified. The abstraction will reach its climax in the twentieth century, with the non-figurative abstraction, Kandinsky called it total art.
There is not a universal concept of art, neither a universal language of art, every age and every culture have their own concept and language, and interprets the artistic expressions from their own point of view.
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