POST 7: HOW CAN YOUR MAJOR MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE?

 

Well as a visual art student, I immediately thought about how art has been involved along the entire human history, perhaps not always in a good way, but it has been present. For example in the time of the great empires and kingdoms, the artist´s work was entirely linked to making esthetically beautiful pieces of art for an aristocrat public in order to subsist as it’s not a secret that the work of an artist has always been badly paid. However, at the same time, thanks to historical art records we can observe that there was also a shift towards focusing on the social paradigm.

Now that we can analyze the previous records of all these artists in their time, we can see that some of them where conscious of their position in society, of their privileges or of the necessities they possessed. Most of them found the way to implant those thoughts in their work, and create a transgressive political type of art that basically shows how human discord tends to repeat over and over again in history.

If you ask me about what makes the artistic expressions so special, I would say, that the special quality of this area is the fact that it transcends the esthetic conception and becomes something relevant to the conscious intellect, it makes people fall in love or hate, be confounded or have an epiphany. Art permits people to form their own opinions, formulate questions and hopefully obtain answers. It makes you think, and that is what makes the world pause, for a short but meaningful second.

This is how I feel about the idea of making art and how it can contribute positively to the world. I will not touch upon the negative aspects of art for example, the use of toxic art material because I could go on and on.