What is the art?

Art is generally understood as any activity or product made by humans with an aesthetic purpose and communication , through which ideas, emotions or, in general , a world view are expressed through various resources, such as plastics, linguistic , sound , body and mixtos.2 art is a component of culture , reflecting its conception of economic and social substrates , and the transmission of ideas and values ​​inherent in any human culture throughout space and time. It is usually considered that with the emergence of Homo sapiens art was originally a ritual , magical or religious ( Palaeolithic art ) function, but this function changed with the evolution of the human being , acquiring an aesthetic component and a social function , educational , commercial or simply ornamental.