Expressing Yourself Through Art
Art is a gate way to feeling free for most people. Art can be a distraction from everyday life. It can be an escape from frustration, stress, and overwhelming situations. It is important to be able to let out your emotions to something instead of someone. Having something that you can cope with instead of fighting or arguing does not make you weak but makes you a bigger person. Have something that you are passionate about or something you want to learn to do and spill all your expressions into it. It is not healthy to keep your feeling sheltered, instead you should let them out. Either by telling someone about it or letting it out with art. Expressing yourself is a beautiful thing because afterwards you can share whatever you were feeling at the moment with other people. Beauty can be found in your expressions.
I have always been one to express myself through art. Whenever I feel stressed or anger, I reach for my sketchbook and start drawing my emotions away. Instead of yelling at the person I am upset with I put it all in that book. I have anxiety, so I am usually at my worst moments and at those times while I am feeling overwhelmed and anxious I know I have my art to keep me at ease. Studies show that humans need a way of expressing emotions such as, anger, anxiety, and joy.
Drawing is not the only way you can express yourself; you can also use music, dance, and theater. You are able to take more control of your emotions and you feel control over yourself. I know that when I draw at feel at peace, whenever I draw I tend to listen to music to what I am feeling. The music always makes my mind flow and takes me out of the environment I am in and into another world. I feel at peace and stress free when I am dived into my work of art. I am very passionate about my art. Once I start something I must finish it, and I know that I can always create another world within my creativity. A world that will give me peace and calm me down whenever I am not at my best. Whenever I walk into a room the first thing I notice is the decorations and the way the room is set up. If you ever pay attention to a room you could probably figure out the person who owns the room. The person who decorated the room is usually expressing themselves in the process. I enjoy looking at art and being able to think about how the person was feeling while composing the piece of work. Analyzing a piece of art can tell you a lot about the person who created it. There is always hidden meanings in a art work which is the best thing about them.
Art is also a form of preserving history. If you go back in time and think about the Indian tribes like the Aztecs and Mayans, they recorded their lives with drawing on rocks and in caves. If it were not for those drawings we would have not known a lot about them as we do now. That is just one example there are many more like African artifacts that we are now able to enjoy. Most of our knowledge about our history came from the people that were able to express themselves through the fine arts and left them for us to find. Most of the African artifacts were made by clay. Which brings me to the point that clay can also be used to express yourself. Ceramics takes time and is hard to perfect, but it is a creative way to express yourself, you would be amazed what you can do when you start to express yourself.
Once you start to express all your emotions you will not be able to stop. A world without art would cause chaos. Have you ever thought about how the world would look without any art in it? No theaters, no painting, and imagine if there was no music to dance to. Life would be boring without the fine arts. Take a moment to appreciate the arts and express yourself through them you would be helping the world look more beautiful. Expressing yourself is always the best way to relieve your stress and even the best way to share your best moments. Paint or write a song about the happy moments that you have had. Expressing yourself through art is the ideal way to bring you to peace.
