What is art?

[Guildenstern]

No, no, the painting itself says 'This is not a pipe'. So the clue is in the painting. It addresses the viewer: who said a painting of a pipe should look like a photo of a pipe shot from one angle?

René Magritte described his paintings by saying (from Wikipedia):

My painting is visible images which conceal nothing; they evoke mystery and, indeed, when one sees one of my pictures, one asks oneself this simple question, 'What does that mean?'. It does not mean anything, because mystery means nothing either, it is unknowable.

Interesting and funny.

[Ironside]

Somewhat on topic, does anybody know if there's an "art center" in the brain like there's for music?

You can for example have a broken memory (aka you cannot remember anything that happened "recently" (extended into years and decades as time passes), because the tranfer to the long-term memory is broken), while still being able to remember and learn new music under these conditions.

Anybody knows if a simular mechanism exists for art?
That is, that you can recognise something that you consider a piece of art that you saw after your memory went into almost full stasis? Or another method to actually see this.