What is art for?


At all times people needed self-expression. In this they were helped by art – it gave “the ability to express, clearly, vividly express ideas, thoughts, aspirations.” Creativity helped gifted people to reveal themselves and show their talents, as a result of which beautiful works of art were born, from the beautiful painting of a clay pot to the masterpieces of the world scale.
The task of art, according to Amfilohieva, is to satisfy the spiritual needs of people. It can, according to the author, “bring a person joy…, compel to empathize, empathize and even awaken in him an artist.”
I agree with the author’s position, because I think that the role of art and creative thinking is very important for the formation of the consciousness of each person.
About what impact on people has a genuine art, tells AI Kuprin in his work “Gambrinus.” The protagonist of the story, Jew Sashka, played the violin in the “Gambrinus”

beer pub in the evenings, where the people of the port were gathered, very hard and dangerous, accustomed to the constant risk and hard life in the slums. The pub was in the very center of the city, but they still went there to listen to Sashka playing. In his game, he put his whole soul, and so beautifully sounded his music, that she could hurt even the most hardened person from the toil of labor. And even when a pogrom began in the city, during which there were mass killings of Jews, no one touched Sashka – so great was the respect for his talent.
The outstanding Russian poet Vasily Zhukovsky, talking about his impressions of Raphael’s painting “The Sistine Madonna”, said that the hour he spent in front of her belongs to the happiest hours of his life, and it seemed to him that this picture was born in a moment of miracle.
Every person has a feeling of beauty from birth, but it needs constant development, so that people can appreciate the beauty created by others, and, inspired by these works, create something new, capable of expressing their view of the world. This is precisely the role of art – in educating people in people’s feelings of true beauty and in creating an opportunity for self-expression for each person.


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What is art for?