society. It seems as if humankind has a need to create art, and that art provides something

we can’t live without. Nobody would argue with the fact that you create art to express

yourself, and expressing ourselves is exactly what we can’t live without. Hence, art is self-

expression. That, however, is the easy part of the definition. After all, there are many

other ways in which we can go about expressing ourselves, for example, by singing or

The thing about art that makes it special when compared to other forms of expression is

that a piece of art is an image in which everything the artist has expressed is experienced in

one moment as your brain reacts with its own emotional response to the work.

If art didn’t give us an emotional response, we would have no use for it. First of all,

the art is used to tell us a story, to deliver a political message or just to make us think, it

your eye and gives you an emotional response. Whether it’s the mysterious eyes of “The

that a rich and robust theme should be present to give the spectator an immediate blow

never seen anything like it before and you feel like you could stare at it forever to try and

Mona Lisa” or the dynamic design of “The Loacoon Group”, all famous pieces of art have

staring. Artist Joan Miro understood this well when in 1962 he said “To me it seems vital

but nonetheless, it is still art. Wallpaper art is used to merely create subtle emotional

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