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.