What do you believe is the importance of art, creativity, and crafting?

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in Nazi Germany and in many dictatorships artists were often times criticized, killed, or had their art destroyed because they were trying to tell the world something…

in our society, and even in other societies differences people have are often times ridiculed, and people have been killed.

in indigenous cultures, and Native people throughout the world, art is very important to them, making necklaces, clothes, beadwork, making kachina dolls, etc.

self expression is good, and a lot of people don’t write, draw, paint, etc. love their artistic ability, abilities everyone has.

Like music (that’s art too) all art connects people. It’s like a glue for social interactions, it says what words and actions don’t. That’s why art can be unwanted by dictators, the art glues together people that the dictator wants to divide. In the same notion dictators such as Hitler and Saddam Hussein also used art as propaganda to glue the people to them instead.

The mob mentality and the rejection of what people in a group think is wrong spans further than art of course but it shows just how intolerant people can be to those things who are different. It doesn’t matter if it’s skin colour, disability or an unique way of expression art it all boils down to intolerance. And intolerance by it self boils down to fear of the unknown.

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Suz on January 11th 2010 in crafting

One Response to “What do you believe is the importance of art, creativity, and crafting?”

  1. Tehtaza responded on 12 Jan 2010 at 12:11 am #

    Like music (that’s art too) all art connects people. It’s like a glue for social interactions, it says what words and actions don’t. That’s why art can be unwanted by dictators, the art glues together people that the dictator wants to divide. In the same notion dictators such as Hitler and Saddam Hussein also used art as propaganda to glue the people to them instead.

    The mob mentality and the rejection of what people in a group think is wrong spans further than art of course but it shows just how intolerant people can be to those things who are different. It doesn’t matter if it’s skin colour, disability or an unique way of expression art it all boils down to intolerance. And intolerance by it self boils down to fear of the unknown.
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