According to our friends at Dictionary.com, art is:
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The conscious production or arrangement of sounds, colors, forms, movements, or other elements in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium.
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I'd say this is about right, although I am not entirely convinced that art is necessarily a conscious effort. [Assuming God doesn't exist] Can landscapes be works of art even though they are not consciously designed?
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