Art Makes Us Human (*)
Street Art is interesting, creative and unrestricted, and above all, street art is not vandalism, but an incredibly diverse and varied art movement that is growing in popularity as it continues to develop in terms of size, style, and sheer skill. If you are also curious, like art and believe Life is an Adventure you can watch this video I found:
“Art is the activity by which a person, having experienced an emotion, intentionally transmits it to others.”
Leo Tolstoy
I’ll share with you some ideas, by Alain de Botton, I found interesting and which got me thinking. He describes seven functions of art which enable us to grow, reflect and evolve in our understanding of ourselves, each other, and the world we live in:
Memory: Artists not only preserve a visual reminder of a memory, they record the emotions associated with the memory.
Hope: Art reminds us that there is beauty in the world that we can strive to see it, appreciate it, and have it
Sorrow: Art doesn’t just increase our capacity for joy, it validates our sorrows.
Re-balancing: We gain balance through art by taking a moment to observe, judge, and appreciate things we don’t normally see and our responses to them
Growth: Art forces you to react and empathise with situations that you’re not accustomed to. This is growth
Appreciation: Art helps us to revisit the value of ordinary things like the pretty colours in a splash of morning light on a table cloth or the familiar and nostalgic aspects of old beer cans.
Self-Understanding: Art helps us to complete our own unformed thoughts and ideas.
Art is Multifarious
(*) I took this photo in the IJ-Hallen, the biggest flee market in Holland. The image inspired me to make this post, feeling that the artist/s who wrote that are trying to convey a teaching, a message...
Rafa