The visual arts are defined by the Encarta Dictionary: English North America (2013) as the "visually perceived arts," which include renderings, paintings, drawings, photography, sculpture, and other design visual or images. The Encyclopedia Britannica (2013) defines the philosophy of art as the study of the nature of art, including concepts such as interpretation, representation and expression, and form (p.1). American philosophy can be defined as the reflection and formation of the collective American identity throughout the nation's history (Boersema, 2011). Other philosophical terms that refer to the nature of the visual arts in influencing an individual's vision, point of view, ideologies, and perception of modern American philosophy include aesthetics – "why and how beauty and the arts exist", epistemology – “why and how individuals know”, ethics – “why and how people are moral and have moral systems”, metaphysics – “why and how people have reality and being” and logic – “why and how logic and reasoning exists” (Jewell, 2006, p. 10). These terms are an essential part of how we think and use art to communicate and perceive not only who we are as human beings, but how we learn. to accept and understand other cultures, societies, history and the global context of life through the evolution of visual art. All of these terms are used to describe elements of the visual world of art, whether used indirectly, directly,. unconsciously or consciously to describe, criticize, analyze or understand how to appreciate the achievement of visual arts.