What is Art?

By The Art Fanatic | January 28, 2009

Art allows a culture to communicate its ideas and values to future generations. Tiling, weaving, border decoration, and other such systems allow cultures to survive and propagate themselves. Dictators and autocrats have attempted to control the creation and display of art since the beginning of history. People are easier to control if their artisitic horizons are narrowed to the rulers’ preferences. Art allows people to express meaning through craft, and potentially lets them share nontrivial insights about the world around them.

Art is sometimes thought to include only certain groups of people and to exclude others. Art is frequently held to be a plaything of the wealthy because of the time required to pursure artistic endeavors and the cost of obtaining them. But art allows anyone to experience emotions and thoughts, because it now includes not only the artist’s ideas but those that the viewer brings to the artistic work. It can be used to educate, propagandize, control, and convert people to new ways of thinking. This is effective because art uses our automatic responses to biological stimulation in novel ways.

The point of art is to stimulate emotion, belief, or thought by means of what is seen or heard. It expresses ideas in many different ways, and can be used for many possible results. Art is generally the best way to learn about the marvels of the world around us. Beuys stated that art is both a teaching and a learning process, and one meant for all people. Art should not be reserved for the elite, but illustrates the creative process that is part of human nature.

The Artist has freedom of expression, as well as the people that interpret the art. Contemporary art sets up communication from viewers and the artist. Nara and Takano use children as the main subject in almost all of the art they do. Nara creates scenes made of anger and rebellion in children. Takano shows the innocence of children with nude girls. Frido Kahlo and Damien Hirst are true artist by Dickies definition. Dickies are theory makes it possible for two works of art to be listed under the same heading of art.

Art is also used by art therapists, psychotherapists and clinical psychologists as art therapy . The end product is not the principal goal in this case; rather a process of healing, through creative acts, is sought.

Art isn’t a frivolous diversion, but an absolute human necessity. Art represents how we see our world and how we tell others about the world we see. Art is integral to the experience of being human. These are the reasons I gifted my children with books about great artists like Dali, Pollack and Picasso.

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