The nature of art has been described by philosopher Richard Wollheim as “one of the elusive of the traditional issues of human tradition”. Art has been defined as a car for the expression or communication of emotions and ideas, a method for exploring and appreciating formal parts for their own sake, and as mimesis or representation. Leo Tolstoy identified art as a use of oblique means to communicate from one person to a different. G. Collingwood superior the idealist view that art expresses emotions, and that the work of art therefore primarily exists in the mind of the creator.
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