什么是艺术,这是一个古老的、众多学者不厌其烦地加以论证的课题。时至今日虽然始终没有一个统一而明确的定义,然而纵观其总体精神看法基本上是一致的,艺术绝不是血腥和残暴的肉体摧残,而是鲜活的人的生命精神。尽管现代艺术理论和艺术创作层出不穷,表现形式不一,但是生命精神这条本质因素始终贯穿其中。艾伦·温诺在其著作《创造的世界——艺术心理学》中认为,“艺术”应是一个开放性概念,因为,它紧随着人类创造力步伐向前发展,从未处于静止状态,所以,我们不能也不应用凭借过去的艺术经验而总结出来的概念界定它。她认为,我们在谈论艺术时,不该问什么是艺术, What is art, this is an ancient, many scholars have boring to demonstrate the subject. Although there is not a uniform and definite definition to date, the general view of spirit is basically the same. Art is by no means a bloody and cruel physical destruction, but a living spirit of a living person. Although modern art theory and artistic creation are endless and manifest in different forms, the essence of life spirit has always run through it. In his book The World of Creation - Art Psychology, Alan Vino argues that “art” should be an open concept because it follows the pace of human creativity and is never at a standstill Therefore, we can not and should not define it based on the concepts summed up by past artistic experience. She thinks we should not ask what art is when we talk about art,