Why do so many people feel such a need or want for art? What is this unusual fascination that so many have about art and those who create art and the process by which it is created?
I can understand people wanting to own an image of a loved one or perhaps a special place, etc. but now we have photography to fill that desire. As a professional artist, I love to create art but have never had a desire to own art. I do it because it comes natural to me, it pays well, it's fun and because of the incredible emotion and enjoyment it creates in the viewer and yet it has always left me with a feeling of a lack of purpose. In the overall scheme of things what purpose does art truly serve? In the end I suppose it doesn't really matter but I would love some serious and honest feedback. Thanks!
2007-03-24 23:10:20 · 9 answers · asked by reclusive extrovert 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
I believe the need to express beyond the moment can be shown back to the cavepainting of prehistory. I am not a professional artist as i had a very good instructor make it very clear to us that to spend your life creating something as nebulious and judged as art was to daily risk your innerself to a great deal of rejection and pain by complete and occasionally ignorant strangers. the benefit of the joy of making the statement needed to be greater then the risk.
For me, it wasn't. I also don't keep much art work around, although I love to go look at it. I guess i'm not here long enough to spend time with anything.
But i have this coffee mug. It is a classic mug from a diner, it it just thick white and heavy, with some of the smoothest clean lines you could ever hope to make. It has that curve that you find in the waist of a woman or the small of the back of a man that you, in a primal tactical way, gives you a moment to feel it warm under your hand as it rests there and lets you hold it. I am sure that a styrofoam cup would hold my coffee just as well and nine days out of ten any mug will do. But one time, a long time ago, someone who really knew what they were doing, spent the time to create that mug. It is just too good to have been an accident, you know what I mean.
They created the mug, and then they moved on. But...when I have a really bad day, when I fought the good fight and lost, when I have watched hope fade, or watched my patient die, my coffee is going to be in that mug. It helps.
It really does matter.
2007-03-25 02:54:13 · answer #1 · answered by PJ H 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Art is a place to feel, when I see something beautiful that stirs me inside I experience something outside of myself..... I honestly feel that more when I see something beautiful in nature and have always called attention to it for my children. A ray of sun penetrating a cloud in just such a way that I had never seen it before, or the way dew glistens on a flower, a sunset with colors blended and full of life, I told my kids these things are gifts from God. They give us a moment of peace and joy that should be noticed and appreciated.... I call these moments Eye Candy,a sweet second that passes quickly. As an artist maybe you carry these images in your soul and maybe you have lost the ability to appreciate them..... I envy you, that you could take that moment that beauty and put it on paper, to be able to express it. I see it, try to capture it inside so I can recall it, but it is never the same. You can take the emotion and feeling of the moment and give it to someone else by putting it on paper and somebody gets joy from that........ You have been given a gift, you can represent beauty in color and form like a poet represents beauty in words and prose..... Maybe now I feel a little sorry for you. I feel pure joy when I see something that moves me..... and you have it inside you and can't feel it.
2007-03-25 03:02:09 · answer #2 · answered by She Said 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Art is luxury.... as human beings learned to manage their necessities in less time leaving a lot of spare time other than required by the body for rest purposes, the art as well as the science was born.... both need imaginative approach and one needs spare time to sit and imagine.
2007-03-25 00:26:28 · answer #3 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are the snobs who want to look classy by displaying pieces of art, I guess, but a lot of people need to be surrounded by beauty.
Apart from beauty I think sentiment is also important. If art speaks to you, have meaning, memories, feeling, it's so much better.
2007-03-24 23:31:19 · answer #4 · answered by Amelie 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Art is a way of expressing what some people can't express in regular speech or work. It's just one of the many extensions of the spirit. If you think of art for art's sake, it's extending your spirit for the sake of your spirit.
2007-03-25 02:27:35 · answer #5 · answered by Katrina 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Beauty. Ideal. We want what is rare or otherwise unattainable, and to own it, is to attain it. Looking at created art teaches us to hope for better things, or see that we can create the "unattainable," its there, and its possible, because someone has depicted it already.
2007-03-24 23:27:10 · answer #6 · answered by Mary 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because art helps us express ideas and emotions that we cannot express through words.
2007-03-25 03:26:33 · answer #7 · answered by Samarah 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it weren't for art in the Gods mind you would look no different from me. How would you like that?
2007-03-25 05:11:57 · answer #8 · answered by smartobees 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
People usually like beautiful things...
2007-03-24 23:28:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋