My Take on Art!

I was lucky enough to come across a class called Introduction to Theatre, and to no hesitation jumped at the opportunity to broaden my understanding of art at an actor's point. When assessing the question of "what is fine art," I had to immediately access all my basic knowledge of art as a whole. In the time it took me to, I came up with the idea that art is a creative process, it is a passage to clarity, to understanding life in the only way we know how, and that is through passion, love, hunger, scraping the very low and coming back up with a better meaning and respect. It is a way of communication, of release, insanity, and then at the end of it, this unbelievable idea of what it's like to live.

Having read up on the first chapter of my assigned book, I was overwhelmingly informed of the various categories in art, for example; graphic art, which is more or less the creative design of objects or companies and is something attractive to the eye. Then there was commercial art which from the very core, exists for selling only. Liberal art, which is one of my favorites and pertains to more literature, the history of art, and philosophy. And last, a second favorite of mine, fine art, which is in a way the most passionate, the most misunderstood, and the most complex of the various categories.

Fine art, is a collection of art, and from the pit of the soul remains the fire lit beneath the heart. It is ideally a passionate and exotic way of releasing one's emotions that in no other way one can access. It is the drive one feels towards situations or way of escaping situations and their creative intake of it. Fine art is communicating, of letting go and moving on. It is a break in insanity where the rest of the world falls away, leaving only our artist and their creation.

Theatre, is also an art of communicating, it is entirely built on communication and contact. Whether it be with the actor and the audience, the writer and director, the actor and the writer, the director and the audience. Also a way of escaping or camouflaging the soul and jumping into the shoes of someone else for a while. Theatre dips into many categories of art, first graphic; when there is a production, of course it is necessary for it to be appealing and attractive to the eyes of the people they wish to sell it to. Which immediately leads us into commercial, when playbills are created or posters, that is in itself commercially theatrical. You want to succeed in ticket sales and have a full house, so you go to the effort of commercially developing the production, in summary, to the people of the city. Liberal, without a doubt, from the script to the music. Without which it would barely survive in the market. People go to the theatre for the music, ie, opera; and for the literature, which Shakespeare can always apply to. People set aside lifetimes in devotion to the beauty that is Shakespeare. And the philosophical aspect only broadens our understanding of the art behind the theatre. But as we make our way through the list, fine art, stands out amongst the categories in a bolder detail. As explained before, fine art, is passionate creativity, a release, and of surrendering yourself completely. In theatre that is what becomes of you, it brings forth that passion, swallows you up in a wave of creative hunger. That need, to be completely different than who you are, and to shed the life with which you lead upon the seats, as you climb the steps to the stage, remains one of the more glories of the art.

I often found my knowledge, as a whole on art, well educated as I am an artist and that of which I have written I often feel myself. That drive and passion, the hunger for escaping and need for a better understanding. I base my entire existence on art and I don't think not a minute goes by that I don't think of it. I thank God for the passion and artistic power which engulf my fingertips and wouldn't trade it for a single thing in the world.