World Art Decor is a site dedicated to informing the up and coming artist about the trends, events, and shows dealing with art the world over. There’s a lot of ground to cover, and we’ll be updating our site on a continual basis. We’ll also keep you updated on emerging artists around the world.
I’ve often been asked why I feel art is so important! To me it’s a simple answer. Art can contribute to education at all levels. Art, which is also defined as art education, is really defined best in three categories.
Art As Work
The qualities of creativity, self-expression, and communication are well accepted, yet we can also define art as work. Work is what art has been from the very beginning–from childhood to old age. Through art, and individual can learn the meaning of a job well done, and for its own sake. Art is often for personal fulfillment, social recognition, and for economic development. Work is often seen as the noblest expressions of the human spirit. Thus, art may very well be the visible evidence of our work carried to the highest possible level.
Productivity and fine workmanship are not words to simply throw around. The two ideas are made stronger each time any one of us commits ourselves to the endeavor of creating a work of art.
Art Is Language
Art is a visual language that everyone must learn how to read. The images of art affect our hopes, behavior, opinions, our needs, and ultimately our ideals. An individual that cannot understand or read the images of art is never completely educated. Complete literacy demands that we have the ability to understand, respond to, and converse about the visual images art conveys. Art stimulates language—both spoken and written. When we learn to describe, analyze, and interpret art’s visual images, we enhance the powers of verbal expression.
Art Inspires Value
It is impossible to touch art without touching our own innermost values: those of home, work, and play, indviduals and society, nature and the environment, beauty and ugliness, war and peace, and love and war. When we study the art of other lands and cultures, we find that values shape the “all” of human effort.
