Raul Garcia

Egypt
12/15/08

What is the True Meaning of Art?

What is art how, do we define art, and is it something you feel, see, or touch. There

are many types of art such as music, drawing, painting, and sculpting. Many people have

their own opinions, views and ideas on what art is such as graffiti, graffiti artist say it’s a

way to express themselves and to bring light culture to a neighbor hood with their skill,

but the government says that graffiti destroys streets and is bad for the surrounding

environment. Both have very different views on the same type of art.

To me art should be something that is nice, makes you think about what the artist was

thinking and must be physically done by a person. For example the Aztec soul image this

person must have put a lot of time to put down his ideas into a drawing. The wings give it

that look of some kind of soul and the Aztec symbol shows pride of being Mexican.

Frida Kahlo a very famous artist from Mexican known for her incredible deep meaning

selve porits. This artist but a lot of thought and feeling to her paintings. There is one self-

portait of her where she is in the hospital bed dead after giving birth to her son. Her art

encourage many other artist to paint there feeling on to canvas of paper. Her art to me

made me think she lived a hard life, an I was right when I read a bio and saw the movie I

saw lived a difficult life, she almost died in a bus accident that lost left her paralyzed and

almost died giving birth to her son.

Art in my life helps me distress myself for my surrounding environment and keeps it

foced. This has helped me increase my skill on drawing cars; ever since I was little I

loved drawing cars. I remember my dad told me when I was little how would my car look
like when I get one and I drew a weird boxy car with rims, and with flames on it. This

was the very first time I drew a car with lots of thoughts.