Art In Focus – Chapter 1 – Vocabulary

unique expressions of ideas, beliefs, experiences, and feelings presented in well-designed visual forms

painting, sculpture, and architecture, arts which have no practical function and are valued in terms of visual pleasure they provide or their success in communication ideas or feelings

The design or decoration of functional objects to make them pleasing to the eye

a branch of philosophy concerned with identifying the criteria that are used to understand, judge, and defend judgments about works of art.

Standards of judgment