Response to Lisa

"Do you think that the human form is in itself a form of art? Why or why not?"

I do not think that the human form is a work of art.

The human form is beautiful, that is true to most. This, however, is not because somebody designed the human body to be so (unless you count DNA as somebody). Beauty, while common in many "successful" works of art, is not a necessary condition of art. There can exist ugly art.

More relevant than the beauty example in the disproving of the human body as art is the fact that nobody consciously designed the human body. Yes, your parents may have intended to create you. Sure, maybe if you believe in God, than He intentionally created you. The fact is, no man sat down and said "This limb here, that protrusion there, this orifice over this-a-way." If we hold true that artifactuality is a requisite for Artness, then there is no way that the human body is a work of art.