Personal Art Experience

I would like this blog post to be about my personal experience with Art. Growing up I was exposed to art but just the technical side of art. I toke art classes and learned how to draw and basic things of this nature, like most kids. But it wasn’t until college that I started to understand more of what Art is and why it is important to us. I took an art education course here more sophomore year and that was really interesting to me. It was cool learning about a lot of the influential pieces of art and what they meant and how they changed how others did and thought about things. It was a new experience for me thinking about art theory and the more academic and intellectual side of art. Also my girlfriend that I got in college is an Art major. I’ve learned a lot about how to think about art from her and how art can depict our emotions. She has told me stories about students starting to cry as they present their piece. She did a painting about her grandparents dying and I got to see all the emotion behind the painting and how the painting helped her express it and be able to move on. I’ve heard the question quite a few times in college, “why is art important?”. Before college I'm not sure I would have had a very good answer. I probably would have said just for ascetic value and bland things like that. Now I would say art is a way for humans to express things that we cannot say with words and to get people to communicate and interact. I think most people would agree that personal relationships and interacting with other people is one of the most important things of our lives. I would agree with this. So if art gets people to have this interaction then I would say that art is incredibly important to us as humans.