The Love Of Art : My Love For Art

create something almost mesmeric, my life was forever changed. The oddly satisfying damp smell of watercolors on fresh paper, or the jolt of exhilaration after finishing a week long project is intoxicating like methamphetamine for an artist. Art and the inspiration from my favorite artist such as Vincent Van Gogh and Gustav Klimt, changed my life for the better and led me to find what sets my soul on fire. For Christmas and my birthday as a child I would beg for art supplies, paint, clay, or basically

little girl, I’ve had a deep love for art. Whether it was painting, drawing, dancing, music, acting, or building and designing, I was completely into it and I wanted to know everything and anything about it. As I began to grow up, I also started looking more deeply into it and doing more historical research to learn about different types of art, techniques used, the way artists think or what their creations mean, and what inspired them. It fascinates me. When I was 4, my dream was to become a painter

you discover that you loved art? Kumi: I don’t really remember when art wasn’t a part of my life in some way or form. Both of my parents were involved in very creative occupations. My mother made all of the clothes for my sister and I, as she had studied fashion for most of her life. My dad was particularly interested in traditional styles of Japanese crafts and drawings. He was an industrial design professor who spent his free time sculpting. My parents encouraged my sister and I to draw and express

mind. My weekends as a little girl revolved around trips to the craft store, crazy projects in the kitchen and dance routines. During the summer months, I would make the most elaborate journals, with each journal entry paired with their unique picture, many of which that were either pop-up or holographic (sparkly nail polish was a must). Within my high school career, I took the rigorous, I.B. higher level Visual Arts. This course stretched my creative mind. Piece by piece and year by year my artistic

To adequately explain my love of the arts and social sciences, I must first recount my first experiences of art and how that experience shaped me to become, and I quote my mother here, the “artsy fartsy” person I am today. Much like any child, when I was in elementary school I changed what I wanted to be when I grew up frequently. In kindergarten, I wanted to be an artist. A traveling art merchant who sold pieces of themselves off to the highest bidder, a person who traveled the world but always

To adequately explain my immense love of the arts and social sciences, I must first recount my experiences of art and how that experience shaped me to become, and I quote my mother, the “artsy fartsy” person I am today. Like any child, when I was in elementary school, I changed what career path I wanted to pursue frequently. In kindergarten, after watching Bob Ross paint in an afterschool infomercial that a teacher showed (and being so enthralled with it, I nearly cried), I decided I wanted to be

I love to create worlds, people, and even entire universes with a pencil and paper. Simple lines, shapes, and colors put together to make one product. Splotches of vibrant color bring out the scenery as the simple lines and shapes become complex figures. My mind is the limit, nothing is impossible to create on my paper. I’ve enjoyed art ever since I was a child, I would always gawk at coloring books and art supply kits upon seeing them at stores. To get the hang of drawing characters I would take

doing various forms of arts and crafts, through my love for creating things in particular, I found that by working wholeheartedly in every task I do, I find more and more of myself in what I can achieve. Vincent Van Gogh’s quote, “It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done” has stuck to me ever since I read it. Growing up I have always loved art, whether it be doodling

While the LOVE sculpture is in fact a sculpture, it actually originated as a print image for the Museum of Modern Art Christmas card in 1964. Shortly after it became a popular postage stamp, while finally becoming a sculpture in 1970. The idea behind this work of art originated when the Museum of Modern Art asked Indiana to design a Christmas card. He reflected upon his nomadic childhood, remembering posters he had frequently seen at a Christian Science churches with the words “God is love (Robert

theory, development is important. The same is true for love. Individuals learn to love at birth and then learn to give love as they mature. Early development is a time of motherly love. As individuals grow older and experience early childhood and adolescence, brotherly love, self-love, and love of God are commonly developed. Through maturity, experience, and practice an individual develops a need and desire to find erotic love. Each form of love, as described by Fromm, can relate to a particular stage