WHAT THEY REALLY FAIL TO UNDERSTAND

"It is important to express oneself provided the feelings are real and taken from your own experience." _Berthe Morisot.

         
PERCEPTION OF SOME PEOPLE TOWARDS ART AND THE DEFINITION OF ART.
Art is more than just drawing contrary to the general perception of many. A plethora of people think of art as just mere drawing, waste of time and a worthless endeavour, but little did they know that everyone is an artist. Itself is more than a subject. I am still able to recall the day a love one of mine was so disappointed to know that I am an art major. He said to me: "But why are you specializing in drawing which is useless when you can specialize in either banking or nursing." I too became disappointed to know his lack of knowledge towards what Art truly is. A little bit disappointed and not angry, because I am vividly aware that it is the same way many perceive art in my society.
Many people fail to realize the broadness of art, its roles and the fact that human salvation lies in the hands of the creativity maladjusted. Due to this, our government tends to give more priority to Science and Commerce fields than Art field, thus encouraging outstanding students to abandon the Art field. It is very funny and dangerous that any student with a good or excellent result (mostly aggregate 6-20) after the completion of their 9th are often advised by love ones to study Science regardless of their science background. A better example can be a student with this type of result below:
Mathematics = 2 (V. Good)
English          = 1 (Excellent)
Science          = 4 (Credit)
Social studies = 1 (Excellent)
Literature       = 2 (V. Good)
Art and Craft = 1 (Excellent)
Religion         = 2 (V. Good)
                                 aggregate: 11

Knowing that a particular student produce similar results above at the end of every term, it will be arguably erroneous to convince that particular student to study Science related field unless otherwise.

Now, moving on to the definition of art and thoughts about art by some famous thinkers.  There are abundant ways in which many different artists based on their perceptions and interests defined or described art. However, Art is commonly define as a process of self expression. Berthe posited that "It is important to express oneself provided the feeling are real and taken from your own experience. "Art is anything you can get away with." (Andy Warhold). It is also defined as "humans effort to imitate the work of nature". According to Leo Tolstoy, "art is the activity by which a person,  having experienced an emotion, intentionally transmits it to others". So in view of Leo's definition,  you will come to realize that self expression exists as the artists' work is mainly by the hand and from the brain. Only through self expression you can inculcate knowledge to someone. Thus it can be fairly concluded that in simple term, art means "self expression".

Below is a list of five inspirational quotes by some very famous Artist. You can also see 75 of them in my next post.

1. "Every child is an artist; the problem is staying an artist when you grow up." _Pablo Picasso

2. "There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people." _Vincent Van Gogh

3. "Every artist was first an amateur." _Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. "Art is not a thing, it is a way." _Elbert Hubbard

5. "Art is never finished, only abandoned." _Leonardo Da Vince

                                                   
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