Art Is Easy To Define. By David Slone, Times-Union Staff Writer Art is a photograph or a painting. Art is a drawing or a ceramic vase.
Art is in the eye of the beholder.
It may be easy to define what art is, but what it isn t that s not so easy. There are critics who will say, That s not art. It is very difficult, if not impossible, to say what something is not. And art is so abstract already, it doesn t seem possible to say what art is not. When I was a child and painted out of the lines, my art teacher lowered my grade by a slight margin.