Art From The Inside

These small readings seem to focus on the main idea of why art is created. There isn't a simple answer to that question, as each reason is subjective to that individual, but it gives examples nonetheless.

The main reason people create art, such as paintings or sculptures, is to release within themselves some sort of emotion. Perhaps it is to convey some form to another, but mostly it is of selfish acts. And, like stated in one reading about a painting obtaining a different meaning once it's on a wall, art changes form and meaning. A painting or a play are created because the artist had to get rid of something inside them. It is a form of therapy, or expression, or both. But once it becomes before an audience, it loses that special meaning and becomes something to look at, ponder, dissect, etc. It's not what the artist is about but what the painting or play is about. Now this is important, and I feel is necessary and expected of art. If one doesn't pick apart a work and form an opinion than there's no reason for the art piece to exist and there's certainly no reason for you to inhabit the earth.

I do understand in the Conversations with Picasso how people look at a painting on a flower and try to unravel it's beauty; however, they will not take such time to do the same for the actual figure in real life. Art is, especially for those who create it, an escape. It is a window to a world similar to ours, but with something special inside. We share these with others, and they try to understand and enjoy them.
Art, in the sense of a painting or sculpture, should not be driven by what "the other" will think. It must come out of the artist naturally and be brought into existence due to whatever reasons. This is very different from theater or film, with which the art doesn't exist without an "other" to view upon it.

Art is so extremely subjective, and the reason behind art or the purpose of art has no concrete or certain answer. It exists, for personally enjoyment, for the enjoyment of others, or simply as a means of getting something out of ones system. Art is, and always will be. Sometimes one has to leave it at that.