In art, expression is not only showing feelings but also what?

Giving form to ideas, experiences, and messages

The governing concept is the broad meaning of artistic expression. Expression is not limited to displaying happiness, sadness, anger, or other emotions; it also gives visible, audible, or performative form to an artist’s ideas, experiences, observations, and intended messages. Option A is correct because a painting, sculpture, song, or performance can communicate what the creator thinks or has lived through, even when the feeling is subtle. Options B, C, and D describe absence, removal, or silence rather than communication. Colours are not compulsory in every artwork, but removing them does not define expression. Therefore, artistic expression includes shaping inner ideas and experiences into a form that others can perceive and interpret.

This is a Class 9 Art Education question. Chapter: Introduction to Art. Topic: Art as a form of expression.