Art is allllll around us at every moment. In fact, your phone is a form of art! First, it being a drawing concept on a piece of paper, and now being a built machine for your own use. Each building you step foot in? Art. Every piece of music you listen to? Art. Every game you’ve ever played, every show or movie you’ve ever watched, every cup you’ve ever drank out of… all art!
Okay, yeah, cool- Art is everywhere… But does it really benefit us? Obviously, we can live without it, right?
Well, I personally wouldn’t say that. See- art is a diverse form. There’s ceramics, sculpture, music, theatre, architecture, engineering, writing, painting, animation… That’s all art!
With ceramics, we typically think of a pottery… but without ceramics, we wouldn’t have plates, bowls, cups, mugs, and other things that are rather important for us. I mean, we’re not always going to use our hands for something. And yes, we could make plates and bowls through different material other than clay… but that’s a form of sculpture, which is still art! Sculpture is also how we have our silverware!
Architecture is another important one. The building that you’re (most likely) sitting in right now first started as a drawing on a blueprint, then structured with planks of wood, then, boom! A building for you to live in, shop in, play in, do business in, take shelter in… It’s pretty important to have access in these things. We could remove these buildings from our world entirely, but where will we go to when there’s abnormal weather? How will we store our belongings that are important to us? How will we do business in private areas?
And here’s something that everyone finds important in their lives: entertainment. Back then, hitting each other with a stick or staring at a wall was our entertainment… but nowadays? We have SO many forms of entertainment. The most popular one being television shows and movies, which are done through theatre, animation, writing, voice-acting, and even more. Each and every thing being forms of… what? Art!! Sigh, you guys are so smart… But anyway, without these medias in these times, we would be bored out of our minds! I mean, we wouldn’t have any social media without this stuff as well. So that means no doomscrolling, no bingewatching, not being able to see your favorite artist draw your favorite character on Instagram anymore- that also means no more plays, musicals, or even comedy acts. We’d be left with nothing to entertain ourselves except for nature. That sounds like a good thing, but let’s be honest, we’re all going to get bored eventually.
So, let’s look back at all of these forms of art and what could happen without them. Seems rather… bleak, huh? Maybe even dangerous in some cases. No one would want to live in a world like that… But if we were to bring all of those mediums back together in the world… gosh, it’d be AMAZING. Beneficial even. So appreciate the art around you, admire buildings you pass by, smile at the murals you pass by, 3d or 2d, appreciate the effort and time spent on a movie or a TV show… You never know when it could be stripped away from you!
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