Art Is Not A Craft Or Artifact?

Collingwood begins by asking the question, if art is something real but is not a craft or artifact, what is it? It is not made by changing or transforming raw materials or by following a plan, so what do we call the process?
He proceeds to answer these questions by taking them one by one, beginning with the artist. He then asks what we call the act that the artist performs if we do not see it as a technical skill. Collingwood asserts that he does not want the audience to misunderstand the answers he is looking for; he is not looking for theories, but simply for well known facts. He wants only facts, worded simply in the way that habitual art thinkers express themselves.
In an effort to make his intent clearer, he explains the incorrect way
The piece of art may only have ever existed in the artist’s mind up until the point of creation. It is with the example of an engineer creating a bridge with no plans that he explains that until the bridge is built, we would consider the bridge to be imaginary, but once it is built, it is considered real. He then states that the same rules would apply to a musician holding a tune in his head and not making it public. It is only after we have heard the tune played or sung that we consider it a real tune.
When considering the making of an artifact, it is a real artifact to which we are referring. The two steps to making an artifact are creating a plan and bringing that plan to fruition with certain matter or fabricating the artifact, such as the engineer’s bridge. When an artist creates a work of art, such as a song, he may hum or play the tune on an instrument or write the notes down on paper. While these things are pieces of the work of designing the song, the song is actually made in the head of the artist. Since it is taking place only in the head of the artist, it is an example of an imaginative