Empathy And Knowledge

The world would be nothing without art. Art is another way of expressing your feelings. In Anna Deavere Smith’s excerpt From Letters to a Young Artist, she argues that to create great art, an artist needs both knowledge and empathy.

While art does have its advantages, it will not solve everyone’s problems. It is true that not everyone enjoys the thrill of creating a beautiful masterpiece because they might have been forced to take that class. However, those who love these classes show that there is a relationship between creativity and

Empathy is understanding how someone else feels and the ability relates to their feelings. However, in getting kids to develop empathy skills, teachers must use their creativity; art is one avenue teachers can use in helping kids develop empathy. An example is teachers can have kids draw happy and sad faces and then ask questions such as; have you ever felt like this expression (happy or sad) and how did it make you feel? Following up that questions, like can you understand how Johnny feels (happy or sad); this exercise helps kids understand their own feelings while also developing that empathy for other children. Secondly, the altruistic behavior, is a selfless act and the ability to promote someone else’s welfare; in so many words, it is the ability to volunteer to help someone else

Some people may say that artists don’t need knowledge that creativity is sufficient, but in “Letters Of A Young Artists” Anna Deavere Smith claims that mentors widen boundaries and guide people through the process. As Smith states, “...a mentor is someone who takes responsibility of schooling you showing you ropes through the system… make it more likely that you will cross your boundaries”(Smith 129). Some people may be able to create art without knowledge, but for some people that is not the case and they need knowledge.

Art is something we use every day of our lives. It is included in almost everything. Artists express their emotions and feelings in their art work because that is an artist’s job. In order for an artist to create great art, they need knowledge and empathy to make their art work meaningful.

If Picasso couldn't draw a straight line, or Leonardo Da Vinci didn't understand the color wheel, they would never have been good painters. No matter how good the ideas were in their head, if they didn't have the skills to display them, then nobody would have payed attention to it.

Others may argue that art doesn’t always have to imitate life. However, this is not true due to the fact that no matter what kind of art you’re using, the art will always express the emotion of how the person who created it felt. At some point artist will go through life and create art based on a real emotion of theirs. That is why in Letters to a Young Artist by Anna Smith, explains how young artists need to develop the eye, the ear, and the heart to take in everything around them to use in their art. According to the text “Yes, as a painter you will need a hand, and as an actor I need a voice and a body - but before getting to those we need to develop the eye, the ear, the heart” (123). From this quote you see that the author wants the artist to forget about what they physically need to create the art, but to focus on developing the eye, the ear, and the heart to take everything in that our life has to offer. By doing this artists learn how to step outside of given situations to watch, to listen, and to feel, and to feel as others as much as to feel things about others. This allows artists to develop feeling from their lives as they develop as artists. Another quote from

Art is worthless if it doesn’t have a meaning, once you find a meaning, you can quickly learn that two completely different pieces of art have the exact same meaning! An example could be, a scary monster s sad because everyone doesn’t want to be near them and a lonely guy sitting on the edge of the playground because he was getting bullied. When you can express yourself in your art, you can pass the same feeling as what your feeling to your audience, and then the audience can feel the same feeling as you, when you were making it. Lastly, every little touch you put into your art, can give the audience a bigger picture to the meaning of your art. Hopefully, you can now see the importance of meaning in

My two closest friends are artists, and it always baffled me that we all got along so well when I had no artistic talent at all. Then, I volunteered at a youth art program with my best friend Shane called Present Project in 10th grade. The main message that I took away from Present Project was that art can be unconventional and can be seen in everything that we do. I had always thought I lacked creativity because I wasn’t skilled in art or creative writing until one day my best friend told me that her favorite thing about me was how logical I was. She said that I was my own type of artist—an artist who expressed their creativity through their thinking process. Problem solving is an exciting task for me, because there is nothing that interests

Emotions in art have social implications, and they always have something in common with the original feelings experienced by every human being, so an artist never experiences merely a simple emotion, but rather a kind of a general social feeling.

The true definition of empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of one another. This could be feeling bad for someone because their grandmother has died and you have experienced this and know how it feels. It is much easier when you have been in the situation of the person. Authors will sometimes write their book in a way to make the reader feel sadness and empathy for the characters in the story. The quote by Zooey Deschanel does not speak of stories but it does speak of songwriting. When writers write books, they try to tell a story and either teach the reader something or make them feel an emotion. This is what music does, it tells a story, just

What does being an artist mean to you? Without answering this question spectators need to know what an artist is. An artist is a person who practices any of the various creative arts, such as a sculptor, novelist, poet, or filmmaker. To perform great art, an artist needs empathy. Other people may think that an artist doesn’t need empathy and knowledge to perform great art, but it clearly is that an artist does need empathy and knowledge to perform great art.

This goal is to help the client become a more cooperative person, and this starts with learning to cooperate in changing their reaction. When the client's cooperation it can help in the discovery of some new helpful ideas, the client may need to express a great deal of distress with little interruption but soon learn to calm down.

I feel as though empathy will not focus entirly on the subject of art itself, but rather on the person creating the art and their feelings while creating it. Many song writers create songs with varying tempos, intensity, and volume soley based on how they are feeling and what the song is about.

The ultimate purpose of art is to share an individualized expression or creation with others. Therefore, the process of making, engaging or displaying art involves positive social interactions. Psychologists have long believed that consistent social interactions and genuine relationships are key to a healthy mind and