Monday 26 August 2013

Is all Art Useless?

             Men are at times very moody. They speak out very odd things like the saying that we are discussing. If all art were useless Leonardo da Vinci would never have made the portrait of Mona Lisa with a bewitching smile. Leonardo da Vinci would never have drawn a flying machine. More recently Shah Jahan’s Taj Mahal would never have been regarded as the marble marvel. If there were no art much of the charm of life would have been taken away. All men have an aesthetic sense that enables them to behold and appreciate the beauty in nature and in life around. A smiling flower, a green valley, a gorgeous building, a dancing fountain, a singing canary. a flowing river all are artistic creations of the creator. It was because of this beauty that Keats wrote, ‘A thing of beauty is a joy forever.’ Art is beauty and beauty art. Life without art will be useless and not ‘all art is useless.’
             The difference lies in our attitudes. Some are negative in their thinking while others are positive in their thinking. This reminds one of an incident.When two persons looked out of the gate of the Jail. One saw a  pool of mud while the other saw the beautiful bright stars. Beauty lies in our own altitude Art life giving. It is soothing and consoling. These are beautiful depictions In the form of  pictures, architecture, writing, carvings, mouldings and in all variety of life. These beautiful things of artistic concepts are so charming that we are never tired of looking at them. We admire not only the artistic creations hut also the artists who made them.
             Art is the expression of human heart in various phases of the growing civilisation plunging forth Lu unknown goals and targets. It is because of art that man could discriminate between trash and consummate writing. Art inspires life wonderfully and makes it worth living for all its fascination. But for art all life would have become useless. Art is only a means to an end and not an end in itself. Those who say that all art is useless seem to be ignorant and unrefined in their taste and temperament, Art is not useless but it is the most useful aspect of human life.

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