If we look at the influences of art, we see that art influences society by changing opinions, adding values, and transiting the whole experience of a targeted society. Even some researchers claim that art is helping the person to understand the self or in other words it helping them in self-realization. Art is very necessary even for historical importance because it preserves the feeling of that era which we are talking about or studying. For instance, the art of the 1900s tells the different kinds of strokes and feelings of the artist than the art of the 2000s. Even it helps communicate; it breaks the barriers of languages and adds a bridge of feeling which can be understood by any civilization or people from anywhere.
Art over the human brain
Both vocal and visual art inspires people to get ready to change the self or the society in which they are living. Researchers have been always interested to understand the relationship between the human brain and art and in most cases; they got very positive results of art over the human brain. Art doesn’t only influence the little mind to be creative but it influences the mind of any age without any barrier. However, it influences the different minds in different ways which install different character developing seeds in them unconsciously.
When we look back to the Stone Age when humans were not able to understand art but they drew cave art. It is simply meaning that they were trying to express themselves and without their zeal of expression it was impossible to progress to the communicational modes such as language. In the modern world, “communication” is the most powerful thing for human beings that put themselves differently from other animals.
Even when we start understanding art, we do not stop there but keep improving and understanding the meaning of this whole thing called art. It is not compulsory that art should be limited to only visual but vocal art also play a very important role in human development.
When we were primitive, we were understanding the symbols and after that, we started communicating vocally with different sounds. It helped us to learn to cooperate with each other in hunting. This communication got more refine and both vocal and visual development leads us to the language and understanding of society.
Heart and arts connection
Even in the Rembrandt times, it was the art that influenced the society more profoundly than science. It is completely understandable that we consume more artistic aspects than a scientific one. Our mind understands a song more deeply than any mathematical formula. Isn’t it very fascinating that our world is running on the physics and numerical laws but we are dancing on the string on the rhythm of law? It is completely normal to see but very surprising to understand.
In our technologically advanced life, we are largely depending on computer and heavy machinery but does they are providing us the basic needs such as patience, peace, and enjoyment? It is hard for the human to get these basic requirements fulfilled during this modern time and then the question arise, why? Isn’t it should be easier to acquire mental peace when most of our works are automated? The answer is a big NO, we are living the fully automated and technologically advanced life but our stimuli are still connected with the art. We need a considerable amount of artistic expression and artistic moments in our life to make them more fulfilling and peaceful. It is indeed very necessary to have artist expressions but it is not very necessary to live in a fully automated world, it is a choice even in the present world, India 70% population is rural which again helps us to understand the human life and fulfillment is not depending upon the technology but the artist and heartfelt expression as well as feelings.
Vikash Kalra is a self-taught artist and writer based in New Delhi whose work has been exhibited across India and is held in several private and corporate collections.