So this is my personal essay. It's kinda simple and kinda boring but hey, here it is.
Grey Art
The world is dull. Day after day you awake to the whistling of your alarm clock, dress in your ashen clothing, attend your barren school, return to a prosaic home, and repeat. Laughter is rare and tears are endless. Entertainment is an unknown word that sounds foreign to the tongue. Joy is only found in the nature created by God’s hands. This place you live in is cold, it's lonely, it's without the beauty of art.
Art includes poetry, novels, comics, short stories, music, dance, theatre, baking, winemaking, photography, films, cinematography, drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpting, and more. Even the clothes you are wearing right now were fabricated by art. The books we read and the colours we see, the movies we watch and the characters in the screen… That's art.
Art is defined as “the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.” In the world we live in everything has beauty. Good things can even come from our tears; and without it our world would be dreary and colourless.
Now think about what makes you happy, what you're passionate about. Does it include separating yourself from reality? Letting the music move you or putting your mind on paper? ‘Cause that's art. If it was gone one day, would that not make the world achromatic? I don't know about you, but I would find that quite despairing.
guess what I'm trying to say is that we NEED art. Without it words, such as contentment and satisfaction, would be nonexistent, as opposed to today’s imponderable. We would frantically search for happiness in the darkest of things.
Art is born from imaginations which is spawned from inspirations. The stars in the sky shone, making the artist twist reality and paint it on a canvas. The child lost his teddy bear, making the author absorb reality and write it in a book. The heart was in pain, making the poet fear reality and recite it in a haiku. These everyday things are crafted into something beyond what they are and that is what makes it beautiful, intriguing, inspiring.
Art is also important when raising a child. It allows them to grow their minds and express themselves. It may be their words turned into a painting or their thoughts listening to a song. Books/novels have impacted most, if not all, of us. At school the plays we present and the books we read, they all were envisioned. As children we’ve all played with dolls or trucks, using our imagination and creating stories/scenarios/art.
Personally I love to write. It's my way of expressing how I feel and venting my thoughts. It's an art that helps me escape day to day anxiety. The art of writing is passion of mine, without it I feel like the world be overwhelming; simple tasks would be hard and the world would go grey. So you dance, you sing, you write. You let art take away your worries.
When it comes to careers, art is the focus of a lot of professions. Without art unemployment would be through the roof, people content with their jobs would be few and productivity would dwindle. I love to write, I aspire for it to become my career. I would struggle in a career that involves mathematics or the sciences because it is not in my interests. Art is also a source of our technological achievements. The detailed designs of our compact phones; the organized layout of our city’s streets; the appetizing foods that touch our tongues each day; these are things that we take for granted without realizing the time and art put into each product.
It's not always things we can hold in our hands though. In the end God is the true artist. Through the sunsets at night to the pattern on the maple leaves. With his power he makes no snowflake the same, each one shaped differently. That's art. He created all of the beauty around us, the stars in the sky he placed there by hand and the songs of the birds he composed. He is such an amazing artist that he created us all uniquely and beautiful in his eyes. And because he created us in his beauty, we have the instinct to reach and yearn for art.
In conclusion, art is very important when defining us as humans. Art is what makes us happy; it allows us to express ourselves, it has got us to where we are today, and God intended it this way. Personally, art has influenced my life immensely and I know it has for other people. All in all, art is important, it affects our daily decisions, and without it the world would be grey.
