In Barrett’s ‘Why is That Art?’, his primary goal is to explain art, and to show how it is defined. Barrett goes into detail on how a critic evaluates art and how the critic defines the art by different categories and themes. In my opinion, art is art when the creator calls it art. If someone worked hard on something, or even hardly worked at all it is there choice to call their work art or not. Since I am not adept at being a critic, I haven’t truly utilized the steps and examples Barrett wrote about.

1.M.3 Art Definitions