> Art is about giving other people rich, engaging experiences that distill and/or highlight some element of relatable human emotional, psychological, and/or sen

> Art is about giving other people rich, engaging experiences that distill and/or highlight some element of relatable human emotional, psychological, and/or sensual experience. The more unusual, original, and insightful the experience, the more interesting the art. This is a great definition (and this is coming from someone who has studied it for decades). I wonder, though, if you're being too hard on the writer. Art originally meant the same as skill or craft (https://www.etymonline.com/word/art#etymonline_v_17037 https://www.etymonline.com/word/art#etymonline_v_17037). You can see it also in the word artisan, which would likely be applied to a cobbler or carpenter. I believe you are defining the fine arts, which more specifically refer to art purely for the sake of emotional expression, as opposed to the more practical arts, like cabinetry. Nowadays the sense of the word art has narrowed more to what you're saying, to what our forebears meant by fine arts. But it is not always used that way. Many times I have heard people refer to common, practical activities as requiring some "art". Or they might say that someone who does it with exquisite taste has elevated the activity to art (like, cooking). This is even though it wasn't about, as you say, distilling experience into some other medium. People loosely use the word art any time that an activity presents some options, any time there is a choice to be made, and a much better result happens when you choose well. By this definition, almost anything could be called an art, or at least could involve art. The only exceptions would be things that are 100% formulaic, like maybe working an assembly line (even then, I wonder if assembly-line workers distinguish some room for art in their duties). The two meanings continue to intermingle, because all of the arts take craft, and all of the crafts take art. If you want to be a composer, painter, or writer, there are skills to master (the musical scales, paintbrushes, sentence structure). If you want to be a carpenter, chef, or architect, there are always choices to be made, every project is unique in its own little ways. My point is, your definition is very useful to anyone attempting fine art. But I wouldn't attack people who use the word more broadly (and this is coming from someone who likes writing and who often is irritated by imprecise diction).