It’s commonly believed that art plays a fundamental role in society as artists are able to express their thoughts and their feelings in their work. Nevertheless, some people think that art is an additional subject comparing other ones such as math, science, language in school. Children are sensitive and still learning stage in every subject. Art subject is for developping their creativity and learnning how to express themselves beyond words. Therefore, I think that young people, especially young children should be encouraged to focus on art same as other subjects. Just back to basic, why art is important for us?
Importance of art for children.
Art is an essential subject for children in order to promote their creativity and imagination. Growth without development of imagination and creative thinking may lead children to struggle when they became adult and encounter difficulty. Creating something new or interesting turn on our motivation and dedicate to maintain healthy life. Children, who are particularly gifted the creative ability, should study art to nurture their talents.
Another important advantage for children is to provide opportunity to express their emotions and feelings. In other words, young children don’t have enough linguistics capabilities yet to put their ideas into language precisely. Therefore, by using art, they are able to convey their messages through picture and symbols. For this reason, many child psychologists often study the art work of children to gain insights into what they think and feel.
Why creative activities are important for adults?
Fundamental part of art, which are creativity and imagination, provide us with hope to live in the future. In historical incidents, some people, who forced to do same things every day, sometimes chose death. People cannot stand boring situation and seek something new and interesting to stimulate them. Unfortunately, war and bullying is one of them.
In private activity
Some people have hobbies about art and enjoy it on holidays, such as visiting art museum, painting, flower arrangement, creating small cottage or table at home. Art activities bring joy to our life. As for myself, I have my own art gallery on Instagram. In addition to SNS, I take family photos and create the photo books, then gift it to family members. They feel like being an actor and actress. We are ordinary people but we have wonderful life history and we all are stars in our life.
Cooking is a kind of creative activity. During Corona matter, I enjoyed cooking with different theme. For example, today’s theme is France. So, I cook French meal by French ingredients. It sounds like travelling all over the world by cooking. This is originally game when I invite my friends to my place. I’m host and decide one theme/keyword, then the guest bring something related to the theme. People’s imagination is interesting. We share the surprise and impression, stimulate and sharp the sense each other.
Some sports are kind of creative activity. For example, dancing. Hard movement is required, but released lots of adrenalines push away negative feeing, and it maintained healthy and strong mind under pressure. Why are many people excited at sports? Beyond extreme movement, we sometimes see awe-inspiring scene which is accumulated by daily training. We should say it’s art.
In business and workplace
As can be seen, we are surrounded by creative activity every day. Even business strategies comes from idea and imagination based on public information and statistics data. This is important in workplace as well. A company, which doesn’t adopt employee’s idea/opinion and just instructs the one-sided mission, looks beautiful but actually it’s not healthy. If the turnover ratio is high in your company, one of the causes might be deficient of creativity culture in the company. People don’t leave an interesting company.
Summary
Creativity is not built in a day. Art certainly helps children to develop creativity as well as express their thoughts, therefore it should be taught equally alongside all other subject. Some parents focus on high score of paper test and praise children if they got high score, and scold them if they failed to do it. However, their value is not based on the score. We adult should see children very well and realize what they are interested in, what they are good at. This will be great development for their life. As for adults, how do you enjoy creativity in your life?
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