Creativity and art have a very special function in human life. When we create something, we put into it our emotions, a part of our personality and individual destiny. And as a result, not only do we get an opportunity to release the accumulated tension outside, but we also create a new and unique product: a text, a drawing, a dance or something else. It helps us to go beyond our own experiences, to see the missing link and overcome the hopeless situation. Or at least get away from it for a while. That’s why today in this article we’re going to talk about how art helps us recover from a pandemic!
To Overcome Fears and Complexes
It’s hard to believe, but the most successful filmmaker Steven Spielberg was once an awkward and fearful teenager. He learned to overcome his fears in a very non-trivial way: scaring his sisters to death with their pranks. Later, on the set of the legendary thriller “Jaws”, he said: “The best way to overcome his fear – to look at him from the outside and leave the other to fend for themselves. And he was right. Making millions of viewers around the world shudder with horror and open their mouths in wonder, the director continues to dissect his own relationship with his family and other internal conflicts in his works to this day.
Coping with Bad Thoughts
When the eighteen-year-old Frida Kahlo was in a terrible, life-changing car accident, no art therapy was a thing of the past. The girl herself asked her father for brushes and paints as soon as she regained consciousness. Each self-portrait of the vivid and strong artist is a reflection of her world, full of intolerable pain. Painting became the meaning of Frida’s life and one of the really important reasons to keep fighting.
Trying to Overcome the Pandemic
The legendary lead singer of the band Queen could also have had a career in the visual arts: he even graduated from art college. But the love of rock and roll, which emerged in his school years, took its toll, and the boy was destined to become a rock music icon. At the height of his fame the singer was stricken with a fatal illness. Freddie Mercury was only forty when he found out he had AIDS. The band’s concert tours lasted another three years. The recording of new songs was going on till the last days of the singer’s life. In almost all the clips of 1991 in the center of a black-and-white frame – thickly greased-up man, smiling at the audience with his trademark smile. After all, “the show must go on.”
Of course, not everyone can reach such heights of creativity. But lucky for us, we can feel the healing power of art on the other hand: by choosing what suits us and trying to “live” each piece to the fullest. And even if some of us are not yet able to go beyond anti-stress coloring in the creative expression of our feelings, we can make an appreciative listener, a finely sensitive viewer, or a thoughtful reader.
What Is Art?
- Art is an integral part of the life of every state, city and person. The word “art” has many definitions, characteristics and features, but each person represents it in his or her own way.
- In my opinion, art is a figurative reflection of reality, the main purpose of which is to introduce people to the beautiful, sensual, interesting and beautiful, sometimes even to the inexplicable and contradictory. I think that cinema, painting, architecture and other forms of art should evoke different emotions, feelings and thoughts in the human soul and mind. Undoubtedly, the same work of art can evoke completely opposite feelings in people’s souls.
- Art plays a huge role in our lives, as long as it makes us think about important problems and things going on around us, as long as art excites the human mind and does not leave us indifferent.
Art in human life has existed since ancient times. Our ancestors painted on the walls in caves with charcoal and plant juices, silhouettes of animals. Thanks to the preserved fragments of their work, we now have an idea of how the ancients got their food, got fire and what their life was like.
Thanks to the art man is inspired, opens up spiritually, can convey his feelings and thoughts to other people. For example, modern paintings in the style of “abstractionism” have become fashionable now. Many people do not understand how some chaotic spots on the canvas can cost a lot of money, what is beautiful about them? But if you look closely, you can feel how the painting conveys the mood. Faded spots evoke sadness, brooding or aggression, bright spots on the contrary: joy, joy or even passion. It’s for these feelings that connoisseurs are willing to pay fabulous money to an artist who managed to “portray feeling in color.” Paintings can be breathtakingly beautiful to look at, and you can’t believe it’s not a photograph. Charming landscapes, animals, portraits of people. The ability to draw beautifully is art.
Bottom Line
Cinema and writing can safely be called art. These two magnificent things can completely disconnect the reader or viewer from reality and immerse them in the wonderful world of anything. It can be sci-fi, adventure, wild west, space, drama, history, science or even horror. Different genres abound. Art is everywhere. In today’s world, there are plenty of different professions dedicated to creativity. Photographers are almost colleagues of artists, their difference is that they don’t need a canvas or paints, they capture the world with a click of a camera. The pictures, too, carry their own character, style and mood. And it is art that helps us cope with the pandemic!