What qualifies as art?

You might consider lateral thinking and sequentail reasoning an art form. How you place your chess board on the table maybe with an opening from a famous chess match played out. A suggestion that only a chess player would know. I wouldn't consider playing chess an art though. Not outright anyway. While there's no limit to what art is.

Because I'm a very logical person I only consider most types of art to be skill sets rather than something mystical to marvelled over. Most art is more than that because it involves drawing from a vast amount of experience and knowledge. Someone said a picture is worth a thousand words and they are right.

Also being a logical person I see logic in itself as a trap an entire brain controlled by just a portion of it that is the size of fingernail. People become slaves to logic. When the premis or conditions are false the contrapositive will still be false no matter how impecable the logic. I try to explain to people all the time they are being ruled by a false sense of logic but they don't get it.

In a sense chess is like art because with each move a new set or problems is presented. Art also uses a highly complex strategy to create a problem to be solved. Maybe a problem of not enough wall space.

The word art is used like an elastic band. It's stretched to cover too many things and has become far too vast a topic for one word to cover. In short (in my opinion) it has become ridiculous.(To prove or disprove that statement you would have to do a lot of research into what passes as art today). What you find in galleries under the word today might cause Michelangelo and Rembrandt a severe fit of indigestion.

Painting and drawing ( the reason I joined this forum) are specifice types of art. They aren't just confined to canvas, paper, board on an easel etc, or the Sistine chapel ceiling would never have been painted, but all are done with pencil, paint and brush. Sculpture in stone, carving in wood are just as much arts in a similar way as the results are permanent and can be displayed as exhibits. It's why they are called painting, drawing, sculpture etc to define them from anything else in the same way that swimming darts, mountain climbing and chess are all forms of pastimes/sports etc. They're just a different type of preference. Rather than argue what is/is not art, surely it's better to just follow where fancy takes you and call that by its name?. I'm not sure I quite see pole dancing, trampolining, skate-boarding, shot-putting and catwalk modelling in quite the same way as painting and drawing, but people claim they are all art? Fine, Amen from me.