In my opinion, art is something that can define you. Art can be something inspiring, it doesn’t always have to be just a painted picture. Art means so much more than that. It is an expression that communicates an idea of something in your life and what that reflection means to other people. Art is what you do. It is creativity that you find and it is a way for you to see things that would go unnoticed. Art is passion and visualizing things that you want to see or things that mean something to you about your past, present, and future. It can lead to the feelings or expressions that someone may be feeling. I see art as a way to express your inner feelings that lead to something more. I think of art not just with a picture but with hair, fashion, technology, decisions, sculptures, paintings…. art can lead to so much. The way I see it, hair really expresses some people. From dying your hair, cutting it, letting it get long, you are changing your whole appearance based on one thing. It is what makes you, you. I think that hair is a beautiful thing being that it can take up to hours styling, curling, combing, washing and arranging the hair. Hair art is a way to symbolize yourself and your inner beauty.

This is a picture of my hair taken by my mom a couple of weeks ago. My mom is a hair stylist and she does the best work that I have ever seen. She does an amazing job on everyone that she does and I see that for her, hair really is art. She transforms people’s hair into something that they love that personalizes them into someone that makes them feel more confident about themselves. Sometimes, she will have women that come in and have no idea what they want done. They will tell her to do whatever and she visualizes what work of art would look the best on them and demonstrates an art piece.

From this course, I have learned that art is so much more that what it really is. You can actually go into a very deep thought process over the topic. There are so many things that have to do with art and so many people that think art is different from how other people see it. It is actually crazy to me to think about how long ago these artists painted or sculpted works of art and what they were thinking in the time of making what they call “art”. I do not think that we will have a specific definition of what art is because art is life. Everyone sees it as something different and we will never truly know the actual definition of art because of how many things art actually is.

From what I learned personally in module 3 relates to how I feel about art as well. It actually helped me to get a better understanding of why art is so powerful and has been created to go beyond words. I feel as if it is something that has been going around for many many years and it is something that also defines events that have happened in history.

Lastly, I think people are naturally attracted to beautiful things and beauty is subjective to each person. Some artists choose to create something unpleasant to look at but I think that they do that to get attention and for us to wonder what on Earth they were thinking when they created their so-called master piece. I do not think that everything has to be considered beautiful for it to be art. I do not think it is what we see visually, I think it is what that piece means to someone and how it can relate on a personal level to someone. Art expresses ideas.