Through art, man is provided with shelter, clothing, food, light, medicine, beautiful surroundings, personal ornamentals, entertainment, language, transportation, and other necessities and conveniences of life.

Through the printed matter, art transmits and preserves skills and knowledge from one generation to another.

International understanding and cooperation are fostered and nations become more unified, friendly, cooperative, helpful, and sympathetic.

Art reinforces and enhance a sense of identity and ideological connection to specific political views, political parties and politicians.

There are art symbols and signs to illustrate knowledge and attitudes that are not expressed in words.

Some art works express spiritual beliefs, customs, ceremonies and rituals about the meaning and destiny of lite.

This refers to the study of the nature of arts, its concept, interpretation, representation, expression and form. Philosophy of art is closely related to aesthetics, which is the study of beauty and taste.

He spoke of mimesis as the representation of nature.

He believed that all artistic creation is a mimesis. It exists in the "world of ideas" and is created by God. The concrete things that man created are just shadows created by man's mind.

He speaks of tragedy as an "imitation of an action” — that of a man falling from a higher to a lower estate.

He translated this slogan which means ”l'art pour I‘art”.

He thought that beauty or sublimity were not really properties of objects, but ways in which we respond to objects.

According to him, without mental escape, we build up alot of anxiety within ourselves.

Painting, sculpture, graphic arts, literature, and theatre arts are generally classified as representational arts, although some paintings and sculptures are without subjects.

There are artworks that depict something easily recognized by most people.

When looking at a traditional painting or a statue, one expects to recognize the subject — a man, animals, a landscape, a waterfall, figures, dreams, fantasies, seascape, still life, etc.

There are artworks that rather appeal directly to the senses primarily because of the satisfying organization of their elements.

Some contemporary painters have shifted their interest to the work of art as an object in itself, an exciting combination of shapes and colors that fulfill the aesthetic need without having to represent image or tell a story.

Many modern paintings have a purely visual appeal, so difficult that literal-oriented spectators cannot appreciate them.