Philosophy of Art

The etymology of the word Art is derived from an Ndo-European root AR, which means ‘to join’, ‘fit’ or ‘put together’. The preliminary definition; art is the application of practical skill [techne] to the production of works of creative imagination, which expresses, or rather embody an interpretation or view of life. In a wider sense, any human activity could be considered as an art. However there are fine arts as well as useful arts. Useful arts are engaged for the sake an ulterior purpose. For example: the art of building, cooking and digging. The fine arts, on the other hand, are engaged in for their own sake. This is not primarily for the sake of their usefulness but also contain a symbolic element, and have a meaning beyond the physical reality involved. For example, “to be a good liar you need to have a perfect memory”.
In order to see or understand clearly what has been said so far above, we would analyse the importance of the work of art below.

A JOKE
A nice, calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy, walked up to the pharmacist; looked straight into his eyes, and said,
“I would like to buy some cyanide.”

The pharmacist asked, “Why in the world do you need cyanide?”

The lady replied, "I need it to poison my husband."

The pharmacist's eyes got big and he exclaimed,
“Lord, have mercy! I can't give you cyanide to kill your husband.
That's against the law! I'll lose my license! They'll throw both of us in jail!
All kinds of bad things will happen.
Absolutely not! You CANNOT have any cyanide!”
The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife.
The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied,
“Well now, that's different. You didn't tell me you had a prescription.”
The piece of work above is a joke. A joke is basically a narration or story of some funny incident that an individual may have encountered in his or her life. Or it may be a fragment of some innovative