The work of art, art - an object having aesthetic value, artistic material product, the conscious human activity.

The concept of art includes works of visual art (paintings, decorative arts, sculpture, photography, etc.), artistic literary texts (novels, novellas, short stories and etc..) Architectural or landscape design; musical composition and improvisation, theater staging; ballet or opera, cinema, animation, as well as all the objects in the first place of interest in terms of its artistic merit.

The work of art is responsible for certain categories of the aesthetic value of. According to Kandinsky, "a true work of art there is a mysterious, enigmatic, mysterious way" of the artist'. "Bakhtin wrote that art mediates between the mind (world picture) of the author and the recipient's mind - the reader, viewer , the listener.

Works of art are also one of the main objects of copyright.