Is art vital for a healthy society?

This essay seeks to prove the importance of art in the current society by showing the power that art has acquired since its beginnings. When someone walks down the streets of a city or from the window of a car or a building finds a big amount of visual and hearing expressions that go unnoticed because they have become into something normal and like an external aspect that doesn’t affect you.

In our daily routine, we live and even use objects that contain artistic aspects that we don’t see realize off and barely try to understand their meaning. What lead us wondering why this happen? Maybe by the indifference  or because we weren’t educated to grasp particularly the human capacity for the skills and talents of those involved with aesthetic or emotional criteria to produce  and make attractive shapes and friendly  to everyday things or situations that affect our lives and also in certain point create influence for the common society.

Being the art: "the ability, guided by reason, to produce any object" 1 (p.37) it is clear that the art itself and nourish by other generates what we could see in every fashion object that  suddenly reflects the dynamics of the political, social, economic, military and religious from the state that are from,  also it is important to notice that there will be artist who have detractors at first that eventually could see magic in art and others are completely against it until the point that sometimes they are chased for assurance their disappearance.

It has been shown that early art dating from the Paleolithic period, more or less 30,000 years ago. With the course of time, men have made ​​art a common bond with the phenomena of the spiritual life of society with science, with technology, with political ideology, morality. (1)

Although the artist shows an interpretation of the reality of it is also true that on more than one occasion alleged situations abstracts and outlines the past, present and even the future. Its sensitivity innate or acquired for the education received complemented with technical sometimes become immeasurable and even master pieces. They use their creativity "to satisfy aesthetic needs themselves or others, also of institutions, producing splendid works, likely to provide joy and pleasure able to enrich spiritually" (1).

Usually considered that art is manifested only in painting or music, but also with various other disciplines that allow people to interpret, and interact live with them permanently. So music and art go hand in hand with sculpture, architecture, literature, dance (2) and in modern times with photography and film. In addition to technology and society also incorporates photography, film and computer programs.

Since almost three decades ago we have been seeing more forms of art, like the graffiti’s and body painting, including tattoos, that are not considered in the classical conception of art but who are we to tell people if something is or is not art, I believe it depends not only of on the perspective of the society it’s actually a matter of extending the framework of acceptance for example in many cities now they are including spaces for increase freedom of expression through art or the creation of spaces in the public schools to include contact with art since an early age as in Bogota encouraging the society to have a more artistic culture. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Diccionario filosófico. Editorial Nika.1995

2. Gran enciclopedia visual. Editorial sol.2005.

Tattoo Video

With this video we wanted to show the different perspectives about the tattoos, according to their personal experience wether if they have or haven't a tatto.
Right now we can see how tattoos have gained a lot of power between the society because they are leaving behind the prejudices about them.
If its a matter of art, or just a whim of fashion it's up to everyone the only thing that is really important its that if you make one you must be sure of it, because even with the new procedures to remove it, they will leave a big scar in your life.

Challenge reflection

Everytime you say: 'I'll do something for adding or change anything in my life'  things usually don't work out so well because you suddenly realize you don't have enough time or without notice you postpone it
So this challenge has been a great opportunity for make a stop in the rush of the day and do it without no excuse, it always wasn't easy and maybe far away for making something perfect but if you try so hard eventually you can do it.
More than an assigment I took it like a favor to myself to get out of the daily drama and focus on something else. About my specific challenge I had a lot of troubles since how to pick up a guitar until how to  do and editing the video for make the updates.
So to sum up a little bit it was something enriching and relaxing. And maybe not with the same guidelines but I'll try to do another one by my own.

End of the 30 day challenge

For the final week I've made the into of "Only you" form yellowcard
This it's the original music in their acoustic version and mine
this it's my favorite band and which I believe it's one of their best songs.
You I will let you judge if there are a little bit similar or not :)

Them:

Mine:

 

Meaning of photos

If we had to freeze a moment in time the best way to do this would certainly through a photo:

ADDICTION

We become addicted to something regardless of the damage we do or even without realizing it. Some people actually can't live a day wothout things like coke or cigarettes. Using a lot of excuses like "is to feel better and relax" without realizing that unlike the momentary pleasure they find in these and many more things in the future will become a barrier to keep living life in a good way.

SURPRISE

Nothing scares you more that board a plane, you never know what will happen and it's not even for  the technical failures that may have, otherwise because when you make a trip especially for personal interest things you can't always go well and what we plan may collapse. There are not always good surprises but we need to hold on to the positive view of everything and then even our plans have changed we still be able to suceed.

HAPINESS

This little guy is Antonio, the son of one of my best friends. The first time I've heard about him maybe was the most contradictory day ever, feelings were fighting against themselves. Hapiness it's see in him how a little person could help you get over some of the most hard times a family can pass in almost the same time he born and grown.
In my perspective he was the light in the middle of the dark for his mother, especially.

INSPIRATION

You not need to have a specific topic or special guidelines about what should be inspiring if you look closely a place or a situation we can find that inspiration is there we just need to take it when we see it.

VULNERABILITY

This image actually make me start wondering how many times at day we care about someone else beside ourselves or our friends and family? How many times we stop and give a little of our time to an strage or a cause that dont give us a gain?
This little guy see a pigeon dead on the street and think he deserve to be buried with dignity and that someone should be present at his funeral.

MT Reflection

This course has overcome my expectations if you sign up for a course of English sometimes you can get bored with certain themes or activities that are not attractives as only follow one book,  especially when you don't have a lot of time to dedicate because you have all the other things for university.
But this time It was more practical not only i have improved my english in my oral skills but also I could practice my writting with the things I want, that I choose. Also having something as a blog makes you get into the new line of development in knowledge by having a more important relationship with  tecnology, that sometimes we believe that our career have nothing to see with things like editing videos (that we have no idea about it) but those things are important to knowing them and practice you will never know when you're going to need it.
One of my biggest challenges about this course has been my writing skills because sometimes you stick only to the social networks words and you forget certain things about verbe tenses or how to spell or even how to pronunce it. About the things I don't know before this course there are things like the debate between photography like an art or if its not. i personally believe that It was but when you read certain stand over the theme you could see and actually agree with the other view. I thing i've improved in this part but it's not perfect I need a lot more practice but its not impossible because with all the little articles, entries and opinions that I've done in this time have made me force myself to improve.
One of the activities I have liked the most it's probably the 30 days challenge because it encourages you to take a time daily for do something that will help you in a future or that relax you ( if you don't take it like an assignment) personally I've discovered that I'm not really good with motor skills required to play guitar and although I improved it was really hard,  so this course also teaches us not to be so conformist and always say "no, I could not" because you always have to try before give up.

3rd Week Update

This was my third week it has been really hard because I was learning everything with an electric guitar that it's not longer available so, things have changed a little bit I also don't have the same help like I had  in the past two weeks, but I believe I could did it! it's obviously not profesional, perfect or amazing but it's something I've never done and really it's an advance.
This week I played the into to "Nothing else matters" I also have problems with the sound, video, editing, etc so it's not that long, because I was alone, but what really matters it's that I did it!