Art, Music and Religion
Inter American University of Puerto Rico
Metropolitan Campus
Humanistic Studies Faculty
Unit I: Art, Music and Religion
GEPE 2020 – Humanistic Studies
Miłosz Mariusz Jacko, Ph.D.
Prudence C Reid – M00429065
12/10/2013
ART
What is art? According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary; “something that is created with the imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses feelings.” We make art because there is something inside the creative person that needs to be expressed!
My thought around art is that it could be the poetry of a poet, the song of a musician, the translation from an actor / actress or even an “artist” that is able to creatively express themselves on a canvass. In some cases, art can be used as a form of therapy – people can find solace in a picture that reminds them of something or even a sculpture that represents something. It’s a type of therapy or a form of meditation. Many do art for the pure joy of it. We all have this inner voice and it comes out in beautiful painting, sculpture, poetry, thus our inner self comes to live with our arts. When you start to think about art, you have to agree that art is suggestive in another word, it means something different to every person. Everyone has their own interpretation of art, even when some people might agree about the beauty of some piece of art; however, their reason would differ from one another. Art is all around us. It plays a large part in making our lives infinitely rich. I could not imagine a world without art.
The Impact That Art Have in our Lives
Art plays such a large part of our everyday lives that we may hardly even stop to think about it. Art stimulates different parts of our brains to make us laugh or incite us to riot, with a whole gamut of emotions in between. Art gives us a way to be creative and express ourselves. Art creates awareness of social issues. Art may express and reflect the religious, political, and
Metropolitan Campus
Humanistic Studies Faculty
Unit I: Art, Music and Religion
GEPE 2020 – Humanistic Studies
Miłosz Mariusz Jacko, Ph.D.
Prudence C Reid – M00429065
12/10/2013
ART
What is art? According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary; “something that is created with the imagination and skill and that is beautiful or that expresses feelings.” We make art because there is something inside the creative person that needs to be expressed!
My thought around art is that it could be the poetry of a poet, the song of a musician, the translation from an actor / actress or even an “artist” that is able to creatively express themselves on a canvass. In some cases, art can be used as a form of therapy – people can find solace in a picture that reminds them of something or even a sculpture that represents something. It’s a type of therapy or a form of meditation. Many do art for the pure joy of it. We all have this inner voice and it comes out in beautiful painting, sculpture, poetry, thus our inner self comes to live with our arts. When you start to think about art, you have to agree that art is suggestive in another word, it means something different to every person. Everyone has their own interpretation of art, even when some people might agree about the beauty of some piece of art; however, their reason would differ from one another. Art is all around us. It plays a large part in making our lives infinitely rich. I could not imagine a world without art.
The Impact That Art Have in our Lives
Art plays such a large part of our everyday lives that we may hardly even stop to think about it. Art stimulates different parts of our brains to make us laugh or incite us to riot, with a whole gamut of emotions in between. Art gives us a way to be creative and express ourselves. Art creates awareness of social issues. Art may express and reflect the religious, political, and