The Fine Arts are Essential for the Attainment of Human Excellence

Schools across America are cutting Fine Arts programs left and right due to budget cuts and reduced funding, which is preventing students the ability to have an equally standardized arts education. About 95% of schools in America have eliminated or reduced their fine arts program’s funding. According to a report released by the PCCY only 149 out of the 268 public schools in Philadelphia have a choral teacher and 59% of them have an art teacher (Davis). These schools that lack fine arts teachers have felt the need to reduce faculty in order to pay for other expenses. This prevents students from receiving the benefits associated with a fine arts education. In addition, two out of every ten schools don’t have a choral or an art teacher (Davis).

“After a certain high level of technical skill achieved, science and arts tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientist are artist as well” (Albert Einstein). In this advanced modern tech-world mostly people are dependent on science and technology, but arts also play an important role in education. Art creates balanced thinking and better imagination which helps humans to be successful in their career. Yo-Yo Ma intensely informs about important role of arts in modern education society throughout his essay Necessary Edges: Arts, Empathy, and education. Ma illustrates that arts should be also part of education, because it improve students to filter their imagination through disciplined knowledge. Liberal arts should be equal to science and technology because it creates new idea, and in this modern world people should think critical than divergent in their lives. Empathy teaches students to understand and simplify the complicated life. Collaboration include discussion amongst people or group to make things effortless. Moreover liberal arts itself is beauty such as performing arts, it values the beauty of imagination in modern society by art and sculpture.

Some people believe students should be required to take a music, a drama, or art class. Studies have shown that those taking fine arts classes often do better in their core classes. Art is also a universal language; people around the world are able to share their creations with each other, despite obstacles such as language barriers. The arts also allow students to express themselves in a way that they can they can’t do otherwise. Students should be required to take a fine arts class because it improves students’ skills in other subjects, creates another way for students to connect with one another, and allows students to express themselves.

Art is able to evoke different feelings and emotions to each person that sets their eyes on it. The act of ‘looking’ is simple, but a lot comes from it. Where the eyes are first drawn to, the duration that the eyes are focused on a specific detail, and the thoughts that flood one’s brain when viewing art is all significant. These actions say more than the piece itself, it reveals emotions of both the artist and the audience. Art can be expressed through infinite forms, but the underlying importance is not with the art itself. It represents a place in time, displaying what was noteworthy to an individual in their own life. It serves as a lasting creation representative of human imagination with the ability to bring out a multitude of emotions from whoever views it. When art is created it represents the creativity of the human mind compacted into a physical object. Art has little usage aside from pure observation, yet it has prevailed throughout time, showing its importance to humanity. Art provides a lens into humanity, showcasing the human ability over time. When studied through history, art is a view into the development of humans and their interests. Through something as basic as commonly using symmetry to transitioning to asymmetry, the European’s perspective following the Renaissance is revealed. The making of art is solely up to one individual and their creativity. It is the pinnacle of

Yes, these costs are unnecessary, because students should not have to take a fine arts class in order to get a diploma and succeed in life. If students need an outlet then they need to make to make time to go to an after school program. I believe what is unnecessary about the whole situation with fine arts is that if they fail the class then they would have to take it again next year and waist two credits to have an unneeded skill in life. For example, you don't need an art class in order to pay taxes like you do with math and English. Just think, what is more important in life, painting a picture, or paying bills?

     Art, in each and every form that it comes in, shows us who we are. Our

I’ve been involved in Fine Arts since the beginning of my middle school career. Since that first day way back in fifth grade when I picked up that alto- saxophone, I haven’t been able to put it down. Today I would consider myself advanced when it comes to music/band. I currently play the alto and the tenor saxophones. I feel good about myself when I tell people about being involved in band and all of the different things that the band does. Playing an instrument is a talent and I would consider myself very talented. I have lettered in band all my four years of high school. For the past two years I have attended The All-Star Masonic Marching Band Camp. I was very honored to be a part of something so big like that.

The Laozi starts by stating that exact quality is intolerable to grip through teaching only. Individuals can be directed to a more satisfying life by separating want, humanizing an attention in the indescribable, and being openhearted to the secrecies of life. Up to now, there is no writing that will make one entirely becoming of the Tao. The writer discusses the requirement of both good and bad space, or commonly referred to as karma. The author proposes that individuals who make great art do it while deprived of the anticipation that they will persistently own their creations for the eternity. While they work, countless artists dwell in the present and are swayed by an intellect that they may travel faster to the nature of possessions concluded their works; when they are fruitful, they

As people learn more about prior art, we learn about different cultures, their life, thoughts, and spirituality and how our ancestors helped our modern society flourish. It is interesting that it took humans 100,000 years to start creating pictures (Spivey, 12:55). Initially, it was thought that these depictions of animals were of them hunting, but that has been proven wrong. After digging up bones, they never recovered the bones of the animals depicted because they were not eating what they painted or drew (Spivey, 15:47). After looking into these cultures, like the Sands people, drawing these animals it was learned that it was more likely to be depictions of their

Historically, people have always been on a quest to process and document the human experience. In this quest for understanding we have used philosophy, literature, religion, art, music, history and language to record our world, and the modality of painting has been one of the most successful techniques that humans have used to chronicle the progression of our species. Comparing and contrasting works of art from different stylistic movements and periods only reinforces the fact that humans evolve and progress, and there is no better example of this than Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp (1632) and Thomas Eakins’ The Agnew Clinic (1889). In a historical context, they are comparable

“The arts are an essential element of education, just like reading writing, and arithmetic…music dance, painting, and theatre are all keys that unlock profound human understanding and accomplishment” (William Bennett, Former US Secretary of Education).

In today's world, we rely on imagery to provide us with important information pertaining to the things surrounding us and have additionally developed the ability to read these images and understand their meanings in order to make sense of the world. Images have come to dominate our lives, not only in terms of providing us with essential information, but by allowing us to engage in creative expression to convey emotions and generate renditions of everyday life and its components. Without images and the ability to understand them, our world would become unrecognizable and nearly impossible to live in. Yet, at one point in our archaic past, our world was void of pictorial images, up until approximately 35,000 years ago during a period that archeologists

Creating art is one of the single defining factors that set humans apart from animal species. Through art, humans are able to express their innermost ideas and feelings, without having the difficulty of trying to find the correct words to accurately describe their thought processes. Works of art can help us to understand the people who have come before us. This is evidenced by the knowledge humans have discovered of prehistoric men and their symbolic cave paintings. The expression, style, and meaning vary and archaeologists put in much effort to uncover these works.

Throughout the vast history of art, historians can find connections throughout the centuries. Artists from the beginning of humankind have been inspired by the world around them. From the Apollo 11 stones to present day, history and culture have provided inspiration and have been the focus of various pieces. Examining artwork from the 15th-18th century, viewers can be shown a whole world that would be unknown to us without these artist’s contributions. History, religion, and cultural events have sculpted the art world, and we can observe this through many pieces during the 15th-18th centuries.

“Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. “- Francis Bacon. However when I learnt more about history of art and the way each movement and happenings in the world inspired artist to make new works, I was able to see much more than just a canvas with random paints and sketches. The interesting part about this concept is that each piece of art could be interpreted in many different ways. In contemporary art there isn’t right and wrong, each of us view and find different meanings and connections with artworks.