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Art is performed by everyone. Even to this day it‟s hard to explain the reason(s) why
we are so amused by its effects. Really we can‟t live without it. The amazing thing about
it is that as a viewer you can have a clue of what the designer felt when the creation started.
Art is unlimited with different forms and art will never go away. Since art is inherent to
society, its benefits involve everyone.
Art is everything and nothing. If you were to try and name it all, the list would never
end. It doesn‟t have to be hard to do either. “You know music, art-these are not just little
decorations to make life prettier. They‟re very deep necessities which people cannot live
without” (Picasso). To create art the mind must focus on how to create itself. “A held
tongue creates a wise mind”. Johnston works on embodying on experience within a
painting. Plain air painting (Setting up an easel and painting on location), allows Johnston
to better understand a place. He is able to physically interact with the subject and its
surroundings, such as the wind, heat, bugs, cold, etc., and integrate those elements into a
painting allowing him to find the character of the subject. Trees, clouds or mountains
aren‟t the same, each has been influenced by its environment, thus making it individual
and particular to the space it embodies (Mocow). Art in whatever the form it is that we see
it, has main characteristics that enhance the senses. It is expressed that it can be interpreted
in various ways by different people. Any type of art essentially tells a story and is a form
of communication with another human being that is direct but deeply profound. Have you
ever heard of a picture containing 1000 or more words? Deep in its imprints is a deeper
background, a hidden journey now revealed.How you show it is based completely on you.
It started back in the day when people drew pictures of creatures, expressed their emotion,
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complicated for you to explain something. The goals of expressing yourself through art are
to identify and build interest in a variety of art forms, while facilitating self-confidence and
self-awareness through media, music, theatre, visual arts, dance, etc. (Expressing).Without
really noticing our abilities form the start, people have a variety of things they can do that
are all essentially and expect of art. Talking is art just from the movement and the variety
of all voices. The beauty of the shape of and the vocal whispers are like instruments that
play a song that enhances how you see the world. People may not fully understand the big
picture of how much will be missing if art wasn‟t valued or seen or appreciated. Art in a
manual form itself helps create the world of technology we live in today and more. You‟re
probably thinking „Manual?‟ There is a natural form of it too which is self-explanatory.
To get to your point of view, maybe you should think about the music you listen to. How
would it sound without a beat or some type of vocal expression? The one thing you‟ve
come to love would seem duller and not enjoyable. Try living with your world now upside
down and uneventful. You have just discovered the true meaning of „being bored‟.
Art goes back over hundreds and thousands of years. It has been a vital resource for
humans since the beginning of man (Alex). It‟s been a sign of relief and, like books, a wall
of memory. Art started simply by mans‟ need to record. Prehistoric art was developed by
humans from the Stone Age periods when the first demonstrations that can be considered
art by humans appeared. Man had practiced hunting and lived in caves where cave
paintings developed. Over a transition of time man became sedentary and engaged in
agriculture, with society becoming increasingly complex and religion gaining importance,
the production of handicrafts commenced. Finallythe first proto-historic civilizations arise.
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people started to gain interest in different materials such as metals and rocks. Art, in the
first period of history, began with the invention of writing, founded by the great
civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, etc. One of the great advances was writing,
generating primarily by the need to keep records of economical and commercial nature.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world and
also one of the most beautiful pieces of art. For such a society to create something so
massive and breath taking only reveals to the world of how much we can advance. Our
society is blurred and unevenly brought together by so little things. It‟s now appropriate to
think in terms of art as a global culture.
Around the world people describe art as life changing. It has never been recorded as
instant fail- meaning having no effect in a better tomorrow or a waste of time. Many
people have presented what art had done to them, but only one was chosen; this is the story
of how it changed her life.
“Art was, more of a calling to me. I had a need to try and spread
the feeling of satisfaction so I started to teach it. It could mean a lot
of things but the most sufficient definition I use is anything that
causes the imagination to ignite. I do believe art is created by
everyone even by simply dancing or an accident without the person
even noticing what they done. I wouldn‟t really separate art into
different forms because to me they all are equal in value and causes
the exact same emotion that leaves you in awe. When I see art
created it makes me proud, especially by my students. We both can
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of bad art. As long as it‟s pleasing to my senses, which it always is, I
am always happy.” (Interview)
Morgan Dickens said this quote proud and without hesitant that art she believed was her
best choice in life. It could be easy or hard, but art will never be undoable. Let society
notice the real accomplishments of art in its mental form.
Art enhances our lives into a better tomorrow. Used to relief stress, sometimes, it
can also create an environment of self-confidence. “If I didn‟t create, I think my shoulders
would implode form the stress of inactivity” (Alex). Art plays a large part in making our
lives infinitely rich (Esaak). Picasso is a famous artist who believed that the art you create
is you mentally. All you are really doing is reforming yourself onto a landscape. “Art
washes away from the soul, the dust form everyday life” (Picasso). They may even create a
piece they never thought they could get out of them. It could affect them so deeply no
matter if the image is vivid or eluded.He had said, “The hidden harmony is better than the
obvious” (Picasso). These quotes explain the realistic activities that go on inside your
thoughts when you create, a way of finding yourself underneath those piles of years of
experience.
With the physical and mental outcome that goes by mostly unrecognized, imagine a
world where art never existed. It would be a world without culture, empty and uneventful.
Without art the world would be a dark place with mundane surroundings. Specifically,
drawing as an art form has allowed us as a society to advance in terms of creating
advertisements, architecture, and other necessities, just like the billboards, video game/
material, clothing, and maybe the your own personal information/imagination. Almost
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helping us learn ever since we were children by making us better thinkers in many aspects
of school. If you come to think of it you owe your life to art just for the cause of you living
one. Numerous experts on the subject say without exposure to the arts from a young age as
humans, we would not have advanced as much as we have architecturally (Alex). For
many decades the world had been wondering whether or not life is livable, “Yes it is”, it
curled down in the corner scared of what‟s behind the door every morning, “Opportunity”,
it stood in front of a bitter land not knowing how to stand it, “Create”, and fell down in
front of obstacles while worn down by words, “Express yourself”. Without art, the
universe would have no meaning.