Art is an innate and intuitive process of the human brain which we’ve had as a species from the beginning. It is NOT a fun pastime that people indulge in for superficial or puerile reasons. It is NOT a hobby.
Art is profoundly ingrained in our very being. In prehistoric times art was that indescribable mental ability to express the abstract through symbolic representation. In my opinion it still is. It’s a function wherein individuals communicated the ability to think, analyze, aspire, teach, understand concepts, and name themselves, animals, and the world around them. It is also the drive to make sense out of chaos, to understand and have dominion over other life forms and our own lives.
Art is profoundly linked to the human subconscious and intuition. Art is what, in actuality, makes us human. Without art there would be no imagination, no drive to communicate, no understanding of nature, no sense of time past or future. The hand prints tell the story of the concept of “I”, “us”, and “them”.
It’s unfortunate that art has been rendered unimportant, a hobby, something only the Masters do, or relegated to unimportant indulgence unless it meets some artificial societal measurement.
Everybody has art in their DNA. Creativity is us.
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