The essence of what we are used to calling an artistic image is that it expresses an infinite content in a limited form, expresses the great in the small, and the universal in the particular.

What is the story of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea about? Is it about how an old fisherman caught a big fish and lost it? It seems to be only about this, but a huge world of feelings and a whole philosophy of life appear behind this stingy, restrained story.

Or here is a very modest, small work – a drawing by the nineteenth-century French artist Daumier: a bucket and a broom leaning against it. You might think, what’s the big deal? But you look at this picture, and it touches you to the core, immersing you in the atmosphere of the life of the working poor, evoking a whole swarm of ideas and feelings.

That’s why the feelings evoked by art are special feelings, not quite the same as in everyday life. They are big, large-scale, they remove the boundaries between an individual and the whole of humanity. When we sympathize with Makar Devushkin, for example, the hero of Dostoevsky’s Poor People, we sympathize with all “little people” in general.

So, we have come to the conclusion that art is an activity that aesthetically reflects life, that reflects it in artistic images that, like a focus, gather various features of reality. But now we are faced with another inevitable question: what role, what social function does art play in society?

Art is cognition, creation, and communication

Obviously, art serves people as cognition? But doesn’t science, which has reached such heights in our time, fully satisfy the thirst for knowledge, and why is another kind of knowledge, artistic knowledge, needed?

Let’s put the question more broadly: what is the positive activity of a social person in general? Perhaps it can be reduced to three main processes: the production of material and spiritual values, cognition, and, finally, communication between people. These three processes are interconnected and impossible without each other: to create something, one must learn the properties and laws of the world around him or her and at the same time act in a joint and coordinated manner with other people, i.e., communicate intelligently. However, in a developed society, these processes are carried out by different professional groups of people. Scientists are engaged in the study of the existing world and the knowledge of its laws, but they do not usually produce new objects or new material values themselves. This is done by others: workers, engineers, builders. And the third category of professions serves the sphere of various relations within society. These are statesmen and public figures, teachers, doctors, lawyers, trade workers, and others.

Such a division of labor seems necessary and reasonable, but it has its negative aspects, which are especially evident in the era of capitalism, when the division of labor reaches an extreme fragmentation.

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Why is creating art important? Making art helps you learn to “see” by focusing on details and paying more attention to your surroundings. Creating art teaches us that there is more than one solution to the same problem. Art challenges our beliefs and encourages open-mindedness, which creates an environment for creative problem-solving.

The nature of art

Nature in art can take many visual forms, from photorealism to abstraction. It can imitate nature, seeking to visually recreate objects as they actually appear in real life. But abstract paintings can also take their visual cue from real forms in nature, such as the painting below.

Art is a universal language. It allows people to express themselves through splashes of color, meaningful narratives, and heartfelt lyrics. Every work of art provides a glimpse into the past. For centuries, artists have conveyed their history through drawings, paintings, architecture, and sculptures.

How art is used in everyday life

Art is everywhere, affecting us every day, whether we realize it or not. There is such a term as “the art of mankind”. It is usually seen as part of the humanities. This includes the visual arts, such as painting and sculpture, as well as the performing arts, such as theater and dance, and literature. Other humanities, such as language, are sometimes considered part of the arts, for example as language arts or rhetoric.

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Art originated in the imagination as a creativity to create something that can be directly experienced through our senses. While visual art, which is experienced through our sense of sight, is the most common form, art can be experienced through the senses of hearing, touch, or more than one sense.

Most art forms date back thousands of years. From the prehistoric cave paintings and figurines found in caves around the world to the elaborate architecture and sculptures in Greece and Rome, even in the ancient world, creativity has played a monumental role in personal and social life, as it continues to do today.

In the age of technology, there have been many discussions about art. A central theme has been the development of personal style within the broad artistic movements that have emerged over the years, with a particular emphasis on the relationship between utility and aesthetics. The most dramatic example of art that revolutionized was Marcel Duchamp’s The Fountain (1917), which challenged the straightforward meaning of art by arguing that a slightly altered urinal deserved to be classified as a work of art. It is also an epitomizing example of how art is an important medium through which artists can provide political and social commentary.

Art has the following types:

• architecture: the work of Antoni Gaudi and Giuseppe de Sacco;
• sculpture: works of art by Michelangelo and Donatello;
• painting: paintings by Leonard da Vinci, Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso;
• music: symphonies by Beethoven, Mozart, Bach;
• Theater: performances by Moliere and Bernard Shaw;
• literature: works by William Shakespeare, Jack London;
• Cinema: Charlie Chaplin’s works, psychological films by Alfred Hitchcock.

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