How is art useful ??
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Adding to the conversation, since some good points have already been made. (For instance, I also believe that art is essential to the human spirit.)
I feel as though this question was written with a common misperception in mind.
Art isn't just the stuff we hang on museum walls.
Broadly, it's anything we humans create.Anything. And yes, that does mean that there's a lot of bad art out there, depending upon your point of view. For instance, I think that most Victorian mansions are bad art, although many would disagree. But, as long as it shelters, it's useful. Someone designed your frying pan, your desk, your car. All useful items. Some function as good art, some bad. But they all began life on someone's drawing board, or in somebody's imagination.
Now, if you had said "fine art," or even "creative art," maybe my answer would have echoed Feifei's, and I'd have said something about the human connection or, even more important, that acts of creation help us connect with our inner selves. Which is, at the very least, useful to the individual doing the creating.
We're humans. We create. It's one of the things that defines us. Some would say that if we didn't, we'd still live in caves....but even the walls of our prehistoric caves had paintings on them.
Art/creation is one way we claim our power in this world. Through art we express our emotions. Clothe and shelter ourselves. Eat well. Connect to our indwelling spirits. Talk to our gods.
No matter how I look at it, the answer is Yes.
I feel as though this question was written with a common misperception in mind.
Art isn't just the stuff we hang on museum walls.
Broadly, it's anything we humans create.Anything. And yes, that does mean that there's a lot of bad art out there, depending upon your point of view. For instance, I think that most Victorian mansions are bad art, although many would disagree. But, as long as it shelters, it's useful. Someone designed your frying pan, your desk, your car. All useful items. Some function as good art, some bad. But they all began life on someone's drawing board, or in somebody's imagination.
Now, if you had said "fine art," or even "creative art," maybe my answer would have echoed Feifei's, and I'd have said something about the human connection or, even more important, that acts of creation help us connect with our inner selves. Which is, at the very least, useful to the individual doing the creating.
We're humans. We create. It's one of the things that defines us. Some would say that if we didn't, we'd still live in caves....but even the walls of our prehistoric caves had paintings on them.
Art/creation is one way we claim our power in this world. Through art we express our emotions. Clothe and shelter ourselves. Eat well. Connect to our indwelling spirits. Talk to our gods.
No matter how I look at it, the answer is Yes.
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Human beings do not have to make art to survive, which is why it’s relegated to the highest (last) place in Maslow’s much quoted hierarchy of needs.
But it’s a grave mistake to think that those things we are not obliged to do are not important to us. On the contrary, their importance arises precisely from the fact that we’re not obliged to do them. They’re important because we choose to do them, because we want to do them, because we wouldn’t feel ourselves if we couldn’t do them.
That is why every human society has produced art, and why its art is often the only aspect of that society to have survived the passage of time. Art exists because we need to make it. It survives because we treasure what others have made.
But it’s a grave mistake to think that those things we are not obliged to do are not important to us. On the contrary, their importance arises precisely from the fact that we’re not obliged to do them. They’re important because we choose to do them, because we want to do them, because we wouldn’t feel ourselves if we couldn’t do them.
That is why every human society has produced art, and why its art is often the only aspect of that society to have survived the passage of time. Art exists because we need to make it. It survives because we treasure what others have made.
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