What is art

It's both, really. Two people can look at the same painting and come away with different reactions, since interpretation depends heavily on personal taste and memory. At the same time, things like technique or historical accuracy can be judged fairly objectively, so art sits somewhere between fact and feeling.

No. Plenty of respected art is unsettling or deliberately ugly, because the goal is often to provoke thought or emotion rather than please the eye. Beauty was once treated as a requirement, but movements like Dadaism broke that rule on purpose, and today meaning usually counts for more than looks.

Yes, but only sometimes, and only in the right context. Marcel Duchamp proved this in 1917 by signing a factory-made urinal and exhibiting it in a gallery as a piece called Fountain. What turns an ordinary object into art usually has more to do with intention and framing than with the object itself.

No single person decides; it's a mix of the artist's intent and how audiences and critics respond over time. A work can be dismissed at first and later recognized as art once enough people take it seriously, so the label often shifts with context instead of staying fixed forever.

No, not for a single lesson. Nibble offers a certificate of completion once you finish an entire course, not after each lesson, so this one page is meant as a quick, standalone read rather than a step toward a credential.