Human creative skills and imagination expressions or applications usually produced in visual form like paintings and sculptures are primarily due to their beauty or emotional power. The above quotation is the definition of art in the Oxford dictionary. It is one of many definitions and theories to answer the question "What is art?" But this question means suppression like 'art is ...' and answer to essentialism. Avoid the concept.
Contemporary art means the present art, but it is defined as transcending it, the concept of defining art becomes the pursuit of each artist and its possibility is increasing. The important difference between contemporary art and contemporary art is that the focus has shifted from aesthetics to the basic concept of work (conceptual art and performing art are good examples). The end result of contemporary art work is not as important as the process of the artist arriving there, and this process sometimes requires spectator participation. So when joining the next cocktail party, when someone starts talking about modern art, I know that I will not ruin your favorite Jeff Koons inflatable dog sculpture.
Can you define art? Webster's dictionary explicitly defines art as "consciously using skills and creative imagination", but this does not actually define what art is. There is good art and bad art. But how can you decide how art looks like? What is the sound and feel of good art? If someone decides whether the work is really a work of art and whether the conclusion is good, how can you decide it? I think that I am an artist. However, there is no fixed stereotype in the appearance of the artist. Because there are various kinds of art, there are various kinds of artists. For us, people who are not artists, it is often difficult (or sometimes not work) to understand the connections and functions of artists in society.