Fundamental characteristics of being an artist

With the rapid development of the material world, people nowadays have a greater longing for the spiritual world. Art, as a product of social activity, has demonstrated the social activity itself and the aesthetic form of artists¿ thoughts and feelings by means of certain forms of matter and emotion, with art advancing along the society and changing along people¿s aesthetic ideals. Artists are the main creator of arts. While many factors have constituted the main body of creation which also has been changing with the development of society, there is one crucial element that has never changed -the fundamental characteristics of being an artist. The paper discusses the very element, expecting to be served as a way of exchanging and learning from contemporary art workers, and hoping to be of help to the development of contemporary art.