This article is about the general concept of art. For the group of creative disciplines, see The arts. For other uses, see Art (disambiguation). Clockwise from upper left: an 1887 self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh; a female ancestor figure by a Chokwe artist; detail from The Birth of Venus (c. 1484–1486) by Sandro Botticelli; and an Okinawan Shisa lion Art is a diverse range of human activity and