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What is Art? What is art? I have often found myself asking that very question. Steel twisted and welded into unidentifiable shapes, huge cement buildings, or baby footprints across canvas, is any of this art? According to the American Heritage Dictionary art is “The conscious use of skill and creative imagination especially in the production of aesthetic objects.” Art is the culmination of all the many ideas that individuals perceive as beautiful, intriguing, or fascinating. Art is everyone's creative and emotional escape from the crazy world we now live in and takes the form of music, sculpture, painting, song, speech, or any other thing that gives the creator an emotional escape. Many things can be considered art. Some people refuse to consider a giant nylon blob, full of foam balls and suspended from the ceiling art, when in reality the blob was a beautiful piece of art depicting a man