If you ask someone what art is, you will get variant answers, some will say art explains them, some will say art helps them, understands them, and so on. Art is anything that breaks the rule. After surviving so long as the human species we discovered that we need to set certain types of rules to survive, to stay sane, and to keep life going, whereas some of us decided that breaking these rules will make life more exciting. We played with grammar, rhymed words, mixed colors, and voila …. We made art. We can choose art as a hobby, passion, or talent, work hard to improve the skill set, then some choose to keep it as a hobby and some decide to make a life out of it.
Generations before, during the kings and queens period art, was a form of entertainment, either they were fighting wars and battles and capturing land or they sat in their castles and enjoyed all forms of art from drawing portraits, to learning music and practicing weaponry. How do we know so much about our history? Through all the art that’s left around, the paintings, the books, the scripture, and folklore all have traces of history. We understood about our past through this and found our roots.
Art helps to connect with nature, the sound of the river, the silence of mountains, the calmness of forests, and the chaos of wind …. We can never explain it with maths or economics, we need art for it. The imagination to create comes within, you can never mug it up or learn it….art expresses your emotion, what you feel, what makes you alive. You can listen to hundreds of love songs but you will not understand a word of it if you have never felt that love in life. We share our art with the world, we copy it, improvise it and present it as our own.
The best thing about it is, it doesn’t judge you, does not discriminate, you can be rich, poor, male or female; art doesn’t give limits or boundaries, art has always been about breaking the barriers. To test the water, to unsettle the mind, to say
things that nobody wants to listen to, to show the world what it never wanted to see.
The relationship between humans and art is two-way, give and take, we give our energy time, and focus in return it paints the canvas with colors. We need jobs like accountancy, business to earn money but poetry, paintings, books are needed to live, to tell us there is more than just breathing and dying in a lifetime.
I believe a person who doesn’t have a little bit of art inside them is not alive, but I hardly think that there is someone who doesn’t appreciate some music or colors or words. Art gives us the power of imagination, if you have the power to imagine you can travel the world while sitting on a chair, you can fantasize about Rome, and see through the battles of Mahabharata, or can have faith in flying cars. In the end, I would like to sum it up by saying, we have a limited lifespan on this earth, but we want to be remembered forever. That’s why we leave our art behind to be read, to be seen, to be listened to, and to be remembered.