Live, Love and Laugh: My three cents worth, on Art for the sake of Art

If work is already bad enough, why make it worse? If the solid blacks are adding on to your gloomy, laden day, make a change to how you look... For the better!

Dressing up for work can be a chore, especially for a busy-body like me, who has a long list of tasks to think ahead. But really, I don't have a good reason to stick to the usuals, when my wardrobe is bursting with clothes, some never even worn before!

Part of the reason why I adore fashion is because of the way I appreciate it as a form of art. Art of expression, and an art that is culmination of a society's development of culture, affluence and creativity. When I was doing my History major in uni, I remember a professor of mine once said that man create art, not for the sake of art, but for the exploitation of it for political means.

How controversial is that! I see how both sides of the coin work. Man are naturally attracted to objects that are aesthetically pleasing. As defined in Wikipedia, art is "the process or product of deliberately and creatively arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions, especially beauty"

Therefore, I can see how man use it as a tool of deception to convey obscure messages to audience who are lost and whose judgements turn vulnerable in the face of the appealing beauty. Appealing creations of art, which includes an inexhaustive list ranging from motion pictures, performing arts, literature to paintings, are indeed effective vehicles of propaganda.

Strangely, as much of a cynic as I am, I still want to believe in "Art for the sake of art".

Art is a subject that is so distanced from what I'm actually doing. It's unreal that I would embrace it so much. I can't imagine how dull the world would be if mankind let go of the pursue of art, one of the very last of beautiful things that remain in this ugly world.

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