Tripartite Model: "What is art?"

The Tripartite Model reframe of the perennial question "What is art?"

First, I argue that it's actually multiple questions, not simply one:

Rational | analytical, logical, quantitative

How do you define art? What is the nature of art? What are its characteristics? How do you create art?

Non-rational | creative, intuitive, qualitative

How do you experience art? What does art mean to you personally? What emotions does art evoke in you?

Meta-rational | spiritual, philosophical, metaphysical

What is the purpose of art? What does art even exist? How does God, religion, or transcendence figure into art?

Second, I argue that each of us contributes to answering the multi-faceted question of "What is art?" and that only as a collective can we truly find its equally multi-faceted answer.