The term the Arts covers a multitude of creative topics; including painting, sculpture, ceramics, furniture, architecture, photography, fashion, food, jewellery and decoration, and , and the performing arts; story telling, music, theatre, opera, dance and ballet, moving pictures, radio, television, mime, parades, circus and magic.
Each human race or tribal group have a culture consisting of arts they have cultivated because it pleased them, because it contained their history or their ethics, because it entertained them and filled their lives with colour, sound, taste, emotion and touch.
In a world that is often brutal and sad, the arts celebrate the sensual pleasures and bring laughter and a feeling I can only describe as wonder to our hearts. Creative people have a gift to express emotion through different mediums and touch our hearts in an intense way. The Arts are the different mediums creative people use and each medium itself is coded towards particular human reactions.
Using major chords in a piece of music, a musician may write an anthem or a marching tune that will stir up people’s feelings of patriotism, especially if married with suitably strong and evocative words. In contrast minor chords are usually used in a lament, as the words and chords seem to resonate with our heart strings in poignant grief.
A feast, a circus, a parade are joyful mediums, evoking laughter and enjoyment but poetry and ballet as a rule, concern themselves with more serious and thoughtful concerns.
The physical mediums celebrate the human form and display the extremes of skill it can master. Requiring a consistent repetition of training and often incurring great risk, ballet and circus acts show a control of the human body that few can master. Architecture and sculpture likewise, shows a control over earth’s elements and a human beings mastery of knowledge about abstract thought.
The arts are often thought of, or assigned to the feminine sex while Sports Prowess is considered more the domain of the masculine sex. Both sexes however participate in all mediums and enrich the lives of all people who encounter their art with a strong emotional connection to that which they are expressing.
The Arts tell our story with emotions that run deeper than we feel comfortable about displaying in a normal everyday life. Much of art’s meaning requires the artist to appear ‘metaphorically’ naked before his or her audience. As they share their deepest needs and feelings, we find it easier to accept and express our own.
