Baltimore Museum Of Art

Disputes as as to whether or not to classify something as a murals are referred to as classificatory disputes about art. Classificatory disputes within the 20th century have included cubist and impressionist paintings, Duchamp’s Fountain, the flicks, superlative imitations of banknotes, conceptual art, and video video games. Philosopher David Novitz has argued that disagreement about the definition of art are not often the guts of the problem. The nature of art has been described by philosopher Richard Wollheim as “some of the elusive of the traditional problems of human culture”.

  • The aesthetic theorist John Ruskin, who championed what he saw