A Work of Art: A Message
July 14, 2006Every piece of art has a story behind it. Let that piece be a painting, a song, a poem, or a dance, it comes from and tells of a story that is — the artist, its creator’s experience.
We can think of art as an expression of man’s experiences. It could be his feelings, his thoughts, and his environment. It is through these that man is stirred to create art. Through these, man regenerates thoughts and ideas which would therefore become means to a more aesthetic and marvelous end — a piece of art.
At most times, artists feel relieved as they finish a piece. It’s as though they are being lightened, if not totally divested of their life’s burdens as they create art. I see this as the power of art to connect man with his experiences. And that connection eventually reaches out to others with similar experiences to that of the artist’s. If a man of art is able to share to the world a little of his anxieties through sending a message by means of art, then the world’s weight won’t be for him and him alone to carry. After all, man can’t be complete without relating to others. And art is one beautiful way of man’s sharing and relating to others.
Some works of art have the power to incite extreme emotions from its recipients. It’s because this particular group of captivated recipients could intensely relate to the message that the art’s creator tries to appealingly convey. A brokenhearted cries over a ballad. An ecstatic gleefully moves in time with a pop. I sometimes read a poem and feel as though I were reading my brain’s undelivered rants. Artists sway their audience through the message they so strikingly relay in their art.
Thoughts, feelings, the environment, or more collectively…experiences. This is the root of art. For although we say that nature is the Arts’ derivation, still, it is man’s experience of nature that channels the former to the latter. Artists help substantiate the beauty of nature and everything associated with it by their works of art.
An artist, therefore, is nature’s messenger. And his work of art — the message.
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Something for my Intro to Humanities subject.
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