The original and including definition of art (of the latin ars, meaning technique or ability) it is the product or process in that knowledge is used to accomplish certain abilities; that is the sense used in terms with “martial arts.” But in the modern sense, we can also include the term art as the artistic activity or the product of the artistic activity. What could be the final product of the human manipulation on a raw material any.
Ernst Gombrich, famous art historian, affirmed that: nothing the one that one can give the name of Art exists really. Only artists exist (THE History of the Art, LTC ed.).

That is to say, art is a cultural phenomenon. Absolute rules about art don't survive the time, but in each time, different groups (or each individual) they choose as they should understand that phenomenon.
Therefore Art can be synonymous of beauty, or of a transcendent Beauty. In that way the term starts to have an extremely subjective character, any thing can be called Art since somebody considers like this it, not needing to be limited to the production done by an artist. But as it was mentioned, the dominant tendency is to just consider the term Art related, directly, to the production of the plastic arts.
The art historians try to determine the periods that use a certain aesthetic style for ' artistic movements '. The art registers the ideas and the ideals of the cultures and etnias, being like this, important for the understanding of the Man's history and of the world.
Many artistic forms can extrapolate the reality, exaggerating things usually accepts or simply creating new forms of noticing the reality.
In some societies the people consider that the art belongs to the person that created it. They generally think that the artist used its intrinsic talent in its creation. That vision (generally of most of the western culture) he/she prays that an artistic work is the artist's property. Another way to think on talent is as if it was an individual talent of the artist. The Jewish people, Christians and Muslims generally think in that way about the art.
Other societies exist where the people think that the artistic work belongs to the community. That thought is taken in agreement with the conviction that the community gave to the artist the social capital for its work. In that vision the society is a bus that produces the art, through the artist, that is seen as important for its conception in spite of not possessing the property of the art.
They exist many contradictions with relationship to the honor or the taste for the art, indicating like this the morals type that the society exercises.
It can also be defined, more genericamente, as the field of the human knowledge related to the creation and critic of works that evoke the existence and sensorial, emotional interpretation and intellectual of the life in all its aspects.
Digital art is that produced in atmosphere graphic computacional. It is used of digital and virtual processes. It includes experiences with net art, web art, video-art, etc. He/she has the objective of to give virtual life the things and to show that the art is not only made the hand. Several categories of digital art exist such an as digital painting, digital gravura, programs of modelação 3D, edition of pictures and images, animation, among others. The results can be appreciated in impressions in special papers or in the own atmosphere graphic computacional. Several artists use these techniques. Unlike the traditional ways, the work is produced by digital means. The appreciation of the work of art can be made in the digital atmospheres or in traditional mídias. Now some returned virtual communities exist the popularization of the Digital Art, the largest and more acquaintance is Deviantart.
The area of the visual arts and design is extremely wide. It embraces, essentially, any form of visual representation.
Other dramatic visual forms be include in another categories, as theater, music or opera, in spite of not existing clear border. It is the case of the corporal art and interactive art or even the Movies and the Video.
The arts that usually work with the vision as yours a little main of appreciation be call visual arts. Par excellence, they are considered visual arts the following ones: painting, drawing and gravura. The space arts as the sculpture and the architecture visual arts can be considered, although its raw material is not the bi-dimensional image.
Arts cénicas (or scenic) they are all those that are developed at a stage or local of representation for a public. A lot of times these presentations of the scenic arts can happen in squares and streets. We can say like this also that this stage can be improvised. That is to say, the stage is any local where happens a scenic presentation. Can we highlight the following classes: architecture in the Brazilian graph - (of the Greek arché -???? = first or main and tékton -????? = construction) is it the art or technique of to project and to build the atmosphere inhabited by the human being. When it is spoken in arquitectura it is spoken, among many other things, of the organization of the space. The architecture as human activity exists since the man passed sheltering of the bad weather. A more precise definition of the area involves the whole design of the atmosphere built by the man, what includes from the furniture drawing (I draw industrial) until the drawing of the landscape (paisagismo), of the city (urbanization) and of the area (regional planning), going by the drawing of constructions (considered the activity more common of the architects), as buildings in height, houses, churches, etc. The architect's work involves, therefore, the whole scale of the man's life, from to manual to the urban. The internal space as protagonist of the architecture to Enlarge THE internal space as protagonist of the architecture in spite of the presentation above to be more easily the found in dictionaries, it is possible to describe the architecture in agreement with its raw material: the space, or to be more specific, the internal space. Before building contruções or buildings, the architect works essentially with the construction of the space. This theory was synthesized by the Italian architect Bruno Zevi.