@cgcookiedough Yes, but how do you define what goes into that category? What about building a house? Building a house is not painting or sculpture, but if it is a really good house, wouldn’t it be art? Is a mathematical proof art? It is not a painting or a sculpture, but it requires creativity, and is beautiful in a way. But what kind of beauty is necessary for it to qualify as art? Must it be beauty of the visual nature? A mathematical proof has logical beauty; does that make it art? It doesn’t seem like art to me, even though I love mathematics. I am sure that visual and auditory beauty qualify things for “art” status, but I am not quite sure about the other senses. I have synesthesia, so when I listen to music, I not only hear it, but also see and taste it as well. Since I experience such things, but others don’t, does that make it more of an art for me than it is for other people?
There are a lot of things I don’t understand about the relationship between art and beauty. The relationship between art and creativity is relatively easy for me to grasp, but art and beauty are a mystery.
