为什么要创作艺术?

The following is an excerpt from a speech Kirby once gave to a local public high school…
 

艺术, 既要创作艺术，也要欣赏艺术, makes you more aware of yourself — more aware of those close to you, and more aware of the larger world around you.

当你学会如何创作艺术, particularly when you learn how to work from observation, 你开始看得更清楚了. You start to see the spaces between things … you start to see relationships. You start to see more colors as you practice mixing them for yourself. You start to notice the light and how it falls on things and through spaces.

When you walk out into the world, you are more aware. 即使艺术不是你的菜, even if you take an art class because you have to, being exposed to seeing things more intensely carries over into every other visual aspect of your life. This same awareness also works to help you see people around you. You start to notice more about them — how they are standing while they speak to you, 他们是怎么看你的. 你会成为一个更专注的倾听者.

And finally, artists direct your attention to the larger world around you. An artist can paint an im年龄 and at the same time point a finger at social inequity through his or her subject matter. Think of art as the artist pointing a finger and directing your gaze to something that they feel is important and that might be somehow important to you.

Every time you make a piece of artwork, you are expressing something important about yourself. You are showing us how you see the world. You are sharing your creative self with us through the act of making a piece of art.

Kirby Fredendall has taught painting, drawing, and design at 韦德娱乐app下载地址 for more than 20 years. 她也是一个 有成就的专业画家 who specializes in oil abstracts, like the one below.