ART IN SOCIETY

How Important Is Art in Society & Has it Always Been Important?

Is art important to our society? To cultures world wide? Yes, of course it is! Almost everything around you to some extent is because of art. The house you live in is architecture, it's designed (drawn) by an architect. The television you watch, every thing that is broadcast to you like commercials, shows, movies, are all films, which is actually a type of art. The clothes on your body are sewn. Yep, fabrics is art. Life without art would be... well... I don't suppose everyone knows. For years, decades, and centuries humans have been driven to art is some shape or form.

So Has it Always Been Important?

Ever since prehistoric times humans have been creating art. Making small statues of themselves out of the dirt and clay in the earth, drawing with a stick in clay. Then before the common era (BCE or BC) humans began creating cuneiform, pictorial writing with a stylus in clay. Going into more complex into the Egyptian hieroglyphs, and evolving into the Greek alphabet, our inspiration for our own alphabet now. Without art we would not have a functional language, or languages that could be converted to other languages for things like trade or exchanges. 

Without art, history wouldn't have been documented. When events happened, instead of writing the events down, they drew or weaved or sculpted them. As beliefs turned into religions, they began to draw pictures or carve them onto stone walls. Because it was engraved in material that didn't decay, or didn't decay much, centuries later they still stood. Its where we get our stories, how we keep our religions, inspiration for books and movies, etc. 

So yes, art has always remained important. Your life revolves around the art that still stands, the art that will be, and the art that has yet to be discovered.

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