After the class discussion on Wednesday I thought about the different things that we went over about how art can impact you and at what moment it grips you and draws you in and for what reasons. I always remeber hearing the phrase " Art is in the eye of the beholder", but I never really gave much thought to it. After talking more about this particular thought or opinion in class I have a different out look.
Art is a way of expressing an emotion, a feeling, whether is be happy, sad, mad, or any other emotion that a person is feeling. Art has a way of drawing people together or even just bringing one person to a different place mentally or spiritually. Art can mean so many different things to so many different people. It is about interpretation or in some cases just looking at a picture and just seeing beauty. When a person draws or writes or paints it is a way for him or her to release something that has been pent up inside them and this is the only way they are able to express themselves to the world and make themselves feel better. It creates a peace, or harmony in them. An Artist does this not only for himself, but also for those that will possibly look at his artwork and possibly be able to relate to what it is being expressed. The harmony that comes from a certain painting is left alone to the person to feel or not to feel. When the artwork is being produced there is a good possiblity that the artist was at peace when, or felt peace after the picture was finished. Other people when they go into a museum and look at the paintings feel the impact and harmonious feeling then. I have many times felt the artists message when looking at different pieces. It's an individual feeling that cannot be replicated.
Besides the harmony that can come with art, there is also an impact that can arise. Every person is different, but there are different pieces of artwork that do it for different people. The most important thing is what you feel after you have found your piece of art and how your life could change, or how your belief can change based on what you saw. There is some art that just makes you want to cry or some that is just so pretty to forget. It will be something that can come up in conversation so that you will want to share it and how you felt and what you wanted to take away from that experience once you had it. Another way of looking at the impact is taking the perspective of a small child. When I went to the Met the first time there was a painting of a lot of red, yellow, and orange stripes and specs. As a kid you really just look at it as pretty and colorful, but when I went back to the Met after I had grown up and learned more about history I found the painting again and it had a completely different meaning for me. It showed a conflict and how important and how strong it was. The colors were no longer just colors but figures expressing a time in history and feelings based on that time.
Art is so much more than just a pretty picture on the wall. The saying "A picture's worth a thousand words" is really true. The picture can bring so much more to light than a person trying to convey the meaning in words. It is an original way to express emotions that cannot be expressed in another way.
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