“You use a mirror to see your face, but you use works of art to see your soul.”
– George Bernard Shaw
Art has been a part of human culture for centuries. Visual art is a powerful opportunity to express our common humanity, connect diverse people, start a dialogue and essentially, inspire wonder.
It is timeless. It is a universal language that binds us together. It takes us back in time to reflect our past, fundamentally passes knowledge from one generation to another and pushes us further into the future. We all have a tendency to live in our personal bubbles, but when you engage with art you find a place to experiment and explore devoid of judgement. You are free to interpret as you wish (stimulates your brain and improves cognitive ability) process your emotions and see life from a different perspective.
When a piece of art reflects what you feel, it can give you a sense of who you are while also, ironically, entering a mind set where you can lose a sense of yourself and of time. You become more present, relaxed into a reflective state with focused attention and, of course, pleasure.
The emotional response promises an elevation of man’s essential being. The art object admits an emotional response while expressing a resonant emotion consciously created through the skill and imagination of the creator.
Visual art, and in our sample includes masterpiece artwork and sculpture, can be an extremely sophisticated form of expression for the human mind. Nevertheless, we are susceptible to an inquisitive nature and inclined to delight in it.
Art is defined by its ability to reflect the reality of the past or the present. Some artists of the past, shaping the culture of their times, equated creations of their work to keeping a diary (Pablo Picasso.) This opens insight into why they did what they did and alludes to the nonverbal expression of the creator that is not solely about emotion. This does not mean that art must always imitate reality, but it must in some form, even through abstraction, depict reality.
“Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.”
– Rembrandt van Rijn
