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Do we need Art?
Do we really need Art?
This question came to me as a result of two separate conversations with two different people. One believes that without art civilization will die, and another one believes that after all we don’t really need art!
The reason to post something like this is simply to open up a dialogue between artists and share others' views. Hopefully we will all learn something from this.
What do you think? Do we need Art? Why?
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Nice subject
What is ARt Farzad?I just say A poetic langauge in my ART.so I share my poem with you.
I walk on the glass and I build a home on the Ice with my painting in the wild world
There Isn't any separation
If I thought the death , I would hear the world
If I thought the wind , I would feel the world
then I share my ART in the would
shirin pilehvari
Do we need art?
J.A. Spahr-Summers
Poet & Photographer
http://spahr-summers.spaces.live.com/
http://thepoetryvictimsvol4.blogspot.com/
Here is a quote that I think answers this question perfectly...
"You use a mirror to see your face.
You use art to see your soul." --George Shaw--
Well, let's see here
Let's start by envisioning what the world would be without any art. No music on the radio, no movies, no museums, no concert halls, no galleries to visit, no photography, no books to read. WHAT? Do we need ART? Well, I suppose (sarcasm).
Also, think about this: what other field has it's own history?
There is a faculty called "History of Art" in any more or less respectable university. Even medicine have not been honored that much. I mean people study medicene, but not the history of it. There is no history of sience either... Just the history of Art. Must be very important, that Art thing to have it's own history, huh?
Well, let's see here
J.A. Spahr-Summers
Poet & Photographer
http://spahr-summers.spaces.live.com/
http://thepoetryvictimsvol4.blogspot.com/
Along the same lines; common sayings like "The Art of Cooking", "The Art of Photography" (maybe not so common, but you'll understand), "The Art of Sex" etc.
Creativity Spawns the Art of Civilization
In both social, psychological, and terms of business - we are all creative beings. So goes the teaching of Dr. Moe Stein. Without design, we have no tools for civilized living. Without art, we have no design. Art is movement - movement forward, stillness, circling context - carrying on... We can embrace the abstract, the vision, the pieces of our minds... or embrace the real.. However it's cut - whatever genre - art is depiction of life. We would be merely animals without it. - Velma
Artist's Paean My part of
Artist's Paean
My part of the social contract,
my cultural role
is to dig deep down into the depths
of my soul,
which connects to
the collective whole
to fully merge with that landscape
become every bit of soil, every seed,
explore the before, becoming,
bereavement, paint it in color,
texture, tone, in language
that is mine alone
grown from and refeeding
the collective tongue.
Whatever the value we perceive
and pay into the collective budget
to receive
art gives beauty, pleasure, entertainment,
elevation of our mundane experience,
communication of politics and pain,
and ways to sustain intimacy, explain
personal perplexities, move beyond
boundaries, feel more than, embrace
a common destiny, absorb accumulated
wisdom, reason to believe in more than
-- on and on into mystery, history, possibility,
fantasy and wonder.
All this the artist gives, payment for the
sustenance of inspiration
refueling our power
to give ever more.
(c) June 10, 2006 Laurie Corzett/libramoon
do we need art?
It reminded me of this saying by Picasso, We all want to question what art is but no one questions the singing of a bird.
re - Do we need Art?
I do not think we need Art as a form of classification, I think the term 'art' in many ways has outlived it's usefulness, and works only to segregate and alienate the energies of creative individuals.
I believe 'art' however to be one of last remaining fragments of something essential both for the community and for the individual, something that we as a society have lost.
that makes sense
Drew,
I think your comment makes a lot of sense. My purpose in making AMP was to draw creative communities together to help each other, forming a worldwide support network of artists. But I use the word "artists" in a rather broad sense, so that we end up with a (really wonderful) population of visual artists, performers, musicians, constructors, creators, movers (not to mention shakers ;) ). I teach several Sociology classes at the university in which I ask "What is art?" It always leads to a fruitful and impassioned discussion. No one can agree, but everyone is interested.
Perhaps art is, in its essence, a way to communicate parts of ourselves that cannot be expressed in other ways. And yes, we need that.
Terri
AMP: Artists' Meeting Place & Resource Collective
re - That Makes Sense.
"What is art?", yeah I remember slugging that one out
in several student seminars myself, yet to find a satisfactory answer though, the sign of good question I guess. + Thanks for AMP, it is a great resource.