Art helps to reveal the unknown
By: N. George
Worth Noting:
- To criticize a certain social evil, one may come up with artistic work like drawing or painting then exaggerating what he wants to be seen as abnormal for example a corrupt leader may be drawn with a suit and a pig mouth showing that he eats public fund like a pig eats food.
- He may also be shown possessing some characteristics of a hyena meaning that he is gluttonous in nature yet he cannot complain since no one can sue him as he has not been expressly named only the characters captures those of the person who you want talk about.
Our vanity, our passions, our spirit of imitation, our abstract intelligence, our habits have long been at work, and it is the task of art to undo this work of theirs, making us travel back in the direction from which we have come to the depths where what has really existed lies unknown within us.……………… Marcel Proust, Time Regained.
Arts refer to the application of human creative skills. The works of arts include drawings, painting, modelling, songs and dance all of them aimed at expressing whatever is in our mind.
Like a speaker who would point out what he thinks need to be done or expresses satisfaction or dissatisfaction with what has been done so is an artist does but in a different style.
There are issues which we oftenly shy from openly speaking about due to our cultural orientation for instance issues regarding human anatomy but a drawing artist, a painter, sculptor can easily express this like in the supreme court of Kenya
to express that justice is naked
where you can see a sculpture of the Hamilton Fountain Statue which consists of a bronze blind naked boy clad in judges wig holding a fish. The statue which was put during the reign of Sir Robert Brooke a Kenyan British colonial governor in honour of Sir George Hamilton who died in 1937.
This sculpture was commissioned by his wife Gertrude Hamilton and is meant to symbolize blindness of justice, its openness for everyone to see and slippery nature in addition its fearlessness.
It has not failed to court controversies as in year 2009 the chairman of Maendeleo ya Wanaume human rights group which lobbies for the protection of boy child petitioned for the statue to be removed arguing that the boy child has become the weaker sex necessitating the need to protect him.
In some songs they are phrased as questions which upon the audience trying to answer will solve the issue being discussed.
In times of war such songs are composed as they are rhythmic and easy to remember. They may either comfort the warrior or encourage him to remain strong and defend his nation.
To criticize a certain social evil, one may come up with artistic work like drawing or painting then exaggerating what he wants to be seen as abnormal for example a corrupt leader may be drawn with a suit and a pig mouth showing that he eats public fund like a pig eats food.
He may also be shown possessing some characteristics of a hyena meaning that he is gluttonous in nature yet he cannot complain since no one can sue him as he has not been expressly named only the characters captures those of the person who you want talk about.
In case in a certain situation some of the equipment that were used long time ago are no longer in use but their illustrations can be found in art work.
Whatever existed hundreds of years ago like the Egyptian pyramids and pharaohs there is a lot of theory about them which exist should there be art work like drawings about them or sculptures some of the details which are not captured in writings could be revealed.
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