Yes, art can change the world


Yes, art can change the world.
September 5, 2017
     Throughout the beginning of this article,I was not too sure about the concept that was being translated. "How did a ball of wax come into this?" I will say that I was intrigued by this "Strange Powers" group, so my attention was definitely caught from the first sentence of the article. As the question is held, "can art change the world?", i took a few seconds to think how far into the sensational feeling of art could possibly change the world? 
     As the article went on and the concepts and ideas were being drawn out, i was pretty mind blown how well they hit the spot basically with the translation of how art is emotional and can almost transport you into wherever it takes you even if it's for a split second. Salts said how the vision of this overwhelming feeling grants that pleasure is a form of knowledge and I could not agree more. To let yourself fall into art and its past is a gate of new thought of intelligence. Its interesting how Midgley attempted to wrap all controversies up with art, for it shall it cover them as one and explain them through the deeper meaning of the picture as a whole. The reference to a ball of wax portrays this perfecting. Lawrence Weschler told how Antonio Cassese implied how the wisest and most intelligent humans can hold that pleasure of moments when jumping into a painting for quite some time, with good reason. It is almost as if the mind going into this world of understanding and visual arts is actually going into a world of everyone's mind that has ever entered due to the feeling of experience. 


     I love how the writer contemplated on the process of art being a holistic system. Along side of that though is my favorite ending to this article; There is nothing direct about picture to visual imagination of the happenings of the feelings the viewer is having. The literal beauty of art is highly above physical contact, it's like one's spirit is carried into another galaxy of understanding and with that being said, yes, art can change the world of human beings' thinking process for the greater. It's almost as if this article explained exactly what I've always wanted to say with how I felt about art and I'm sure it did for others too. I loved it.

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