Art allows us to feel. For example, when we look at DaVinci's Last Supper, we feel something. Claude Monet's Water Lilies provides us with another example of how art can make us feel something. It is important to note that these feelings can be almost anything. They do not have to be positive or negative - it all depends on the artist and the audience. Art allows us to feel. Tom Anderson maintains that we make art to "make sense of things, to give meaning to our existence" (Anderson). Anderson also states that another reason why we make art is to "communicate something that counts to someone else" (Anderson). "Making art is an attempt to bring order into being, to create something meaningful where nothing existed before" (Anderson). He contends that the "artist's goal is to see with his or her own eyes the nature of things, a truth, if not the truth, depicting the meanings associated with people, and things in paint, stone, and pixels" (Anderson). This is an accurate description of art because it opens the door to possibility. Art does not have to been seen - it can also be felt. An excellent example of this is art in writing. Poetry, literature, and songs are also forms of art. For instance, Percy Shelley's poem "Love's Philosophy" makes us believe in the beauty of love two hundred years after it was written. While one piece of art may make...

The artist needs to express art and the audience needs art as a form of escapism. These two elements work together to make art all that it can be. While we may differ on what we call art, we can all agree that art is essential to life. Artists create and they need an audience to which they can relate. Whether we are looking at Michelangelo's David or listening to our favorite song, we must realize that something significant is happening when we do so. We are taken away, if only momentarily, from the constraints of this life and transported to another place and time when we allows art to captivate us. This is art - the artist releasing the idea and the audience capturing it.
Works Cited

Anderson, Tom. "Why and How We Make Art, with Implications for Art Education." EBSCO Resource Database. Site Accessed February 14, 2008. http://www.searchepnet.com

Anthony Hughes: "Buonarroti, Michelangelo." Grove Art Online. Oxford University Press. Site Accessed February 14, 2008. http://www.groveart.com.ezproxy.harford.edu/

Galef, David. "The Art of Art. Southwest Review. EBSCO Resource Database. Site Accessed February 14, 2008. http://www.searchepnet.com