IMPORTANCE OF ART

 

FINE ART ADDA

INTRODUCTION

In the field of education, art occupies a significant place in the education curriculum of a country. Today the educationists have fully realized the importance of art work in the mental, physical and psychological aspects or in the other words in the harmonious development of a learner. Art is essential like air and water for human life. Without it man would not have gained any culture and civilization nor his mind trained and educated properly for the appreciation of beauty in all its manifestations.
Art gives the visible from to the ideas, feelings and emotions of man, which will give satisfaction to a person's mind. Art plays a very important role in one's life. As man does not needs bread only for its survival, his soul also needs food, nourishment and good diet fir its survival and the art provides that food to man.

Some points are given below which shows the importance of art in our life:

1. Dress:- Art helps a person to select a dress, then guide, how to stick, the work to be done on it, its colour scheme, its design, its combination.
2. Presentation:- An artist will have an edge over the ordinary person to present her self both physical and mentally before others.
3. Hair style:- Which hair style will suit him the best according to his height and body structure, This is guided by the sense of art.
4. Jewellery:- What kind of jewellery will be suitable for the personality of the person. What should be design of the jewellery etc. Art can help a person in the field also.  All the ornamentation can be designed with the help of art . An artist person always has an edge over others.
5. Decoration of the home, the office or work place:- With some materials and money, an artistic person, by applying his creativity can show the ordinary room in much better way.
6. Selection of paint:- Paint which reflects the light maximum and have smoothing effect. As colour scheme can change, the basic appearance of the room. 
7. Making use of best out of waste and decoration:- An artist can arrange the ordinary things in extra ordinary way.
8. The selection of curtains and other combinations:- Art plays a great role in the selection of these things using one's art in the place of work. It increases the aesthetic value and one likes to work more. This increases one's efficiency and productivity.
9. Kitchen:- Applying the art, the things can be arranged beautifully and in artistic manner and makes the person to feel happy and comfortable and more productive.
10. Garden:- An artistic person arranges the plants and flower and does their trimming to make them appear more beautiful.
11. Hostel:- Even if an artistic person goes with some one and lives in a hostel, he has the ability to change the entire structure with the same resources.
12. Crockery:- Art plays an important role in crockery you buy. Even in simple and small things can show difference with an artistic choice.

In the life of an individual as with the help of art same thing can be changed and can be shown more usefully and artistically. Art also helps one in showing one's emotions or giving out let to ones inner feeling has:-

"Art is an impression of outer expression" by CROCHE

"Art is the expression of inner feeling" by R.N.TAGORE

 IMPORTANCE OF ART IN THE LIFE OF A PERSON

1. Art helps a person to express his feelings with full freedom:- There is no limitation or restriction in art . An artist is free to express his inner feelings.  What he feels, he can draw it on the canvas. He can express his personal views, ideas and emotion with the help of art. We can say that art fully democratic in nature. As in democratic environment a man has fully right to express his vies according to his personal feelings, similarly in art even a child is also free to express his feelings according to his own interest views and emotions.
2. Art helps in the psychological development of a person:- Art follows the rules and regulations of psychology. As in psychology every individual is unique. He has his own interest, feelings ideas and emotions and psychology gives an outlet to the emotions of the individual. So as in  the case of art. Art also gives outlet or way to the emotions and feelings ideas and views of a person.
3. Art helps in moral development:- Art makes a person lenient. It creates in a person a sense of satisfaction. He develops the quality of patience because he does his work with great patience and comfort. Art makes a person humble, honest and truthful. So all the moral qualities are developed with the help of art, which help him to become a good citizen of society.
4. Art helps in social development:- Art makes a person socially reliable and self dependent. In the realm of art, the manual work is of great importance but in one society it was seen as degraded job, but now a days, an artist enjoys an equivalent status as a man sitting on the desk and working.
5. Art helps in Economical development:- It will increase the productivity of the artist or craftsman. Art helps an artist to make him financially strong. When he sells his paintings he can earn easily  for his living. He become self dependent.
6. Art helps to develop creativity in a person:- Art depends in creativity. It also gives opportunity to create new things. It creates creative emotions in the mind of a man. With the help of art we can judge, see and compare present with the past. It gives us opportunity to create a new order of reality, its knowledge and understanding. Its function in education is to create intelligence.
7. Art gives us knowledge of past :- Art helps us to know about people who lived in the past. We come know the art and life of the past. Art is preserved throughout the world, in museums. The people of the Indus Valley lived five thousand years ago, yet we can see samples of theirs toys, jewellery, pottery, that have been preserved in the national museum New Delhi.
8. Art is helpful in utilization of leisure time:- With the help of art one can use his leisure time very accurately. He can develop his hobbies in this free time. Nd can make them his profession for his future. With the help of these hobbies, he can earn for his living easily. When a person changes his attitude about his leisure time he will always try to use that time more and more. He can discover new facts and can develop new techniques of painting. So there will be no wastage of free time.
9. Art gives pleasure to man:- Art gives pleasure along with new experiences. The power of art can arouse all kinds of emotions from simple joy to deeper feelings and its work can gladden our eyes and enrich our thoughts. It creates recreations.
10. Art develops appreciation quality and critical thinking in a person:- Through art we can judge, see and compare present with the past. It teaches how to appreciate art and beauty. It develops in a person freedom of thought, spiritual and mental growth, power of observation for the appreciation of the rise and setting of sun, the grace and refinement of the line in great Ajanta paintings etc.
11. Art helps to save and develop culture:- Without art man is not able to get the knowledge of culture and civilization. it is the art which preserves the culture and old civilization, In the museum we can see the toys, jewellery, pottery, coins and art pieces of the past. The art is the treasure of the culture of the past civilization. It is very important medium to pass the knowledge and art of the past to the future.
12. Art helps in the development of aesthetic sense:- It helps in the aesthetic development of a person and along with aesthetic sense self expression and Rasa (feeling of beauty) is also developed. With the help of art, a person is able to appreciate and criticize a work of art.
13. Art helps in all round development:- The main purpose of art is to develop a person socially, morally, economically, psychologically, physically and emotionally. S o collectively we can say that art helps person to develop harmoniously. Art helps a person in his all round development as it develops, creativity, imagination, right attitude towards life etc. It makes a person self dependent and social. It gives him out let to express his emotions expressions and exploration. So it is very much helpful for a person to develop from all the aspects of life. 
14. Art helps in spiritual upliftment:- As we know that Indian art is derived from the philosophy and non from the external beauty. Truth Goodness Beauty is the base of all the art. God is the most beautiful in Indian theory. So art is more spiritual in nature. It is also considered essential for spiritual upliftment. An artist feels feels oneness with God and with nature through art.
15. Helps in Evaluation of life:- Art when discovers the truth. It uses to analyze the knowledge and it gives its contribution to evaluate the life. The art tells us how a person can live his life easily. Art gives knowledge of the philosophy of life to an artist.

CONCLUSION:- 

So to conclude we can say that art, education and life of man are highly correlated with each other. They can not be separated. Other wise they will lose their values. Art is very much helpful in education and life of human being. It directs the views ideas, emotions and expression of a person. It develops aesthetic sense and creativity, which are so important things for an individual. If there is not creativity or appreciation quality in a person he won't be able to see or criticize the beauty of this world. Without art this world will become monotonous. So art is very important for an individual for his harmonious development.

FQA

Q1:- What is the importance of art in the life of an individual?

Q2:- Art is responsible for the all round development of a person. Discuss.