Art may be present in any form of human activity. Plato regarded art
             as a form of play or pastime, which was inferior to such occupations as
             agriculture or cookery. Schiller referred to art as a play impulse.
             According to Ruskin, fine art is that which the hand, the head and the
             heart of man may do together. Art is premeditated; emotion recollected in
             tranquility. Today we have access to all the variety of the art of the
             past. Museums have grown in number and size and the processes of
             reproduction have been improved. Art is the imaginative and skillful
             interpretation of experience in an aesthetic form, and it has played
             throughout history important roles in men's attempts to master and enjoy
             their environment and to liberate themselves.
             The history of american art is very diverse, since it had acquired the
             essence of the European art. In recent years, American art has become
             commodities gathered and marketed by nonidigenous Americans and Europeans.
             From the very beginning, American art produced various objects that were
             gathered from various cultures for different purposes. In many cases,
             native Americans bestowed utilitarian objects with aesthetic qualities not
             stringently affiliated to the object's primary function. In many instances,
             groups of people of people produced paintings that signified status
             position or objects of religious importance.
             American art included the corporeal culture of the Eastern Woodland
             groups such as Cherokees or Iroquois.
             These included decorated pottery and baskets, quillwork and beadwork,
             utensils, plaited sashes and carved wood ritual masks. Early Woodland
             including the Adena and Hopewell, are renowned for their elaborate
             including copper plates and earspools, shell and pearl beads, ceramic
             figurines and objects made of other minerals for example mica, silver,
             (North American Native Art, Prehis...