Is art important? What is art? (9/11)

There was a class on aesthetics last Tuesday.

Is art important? What is art eventually?

If you look up a dictionary you can find out the 'aesthetics' means a branch of philosophy concerned with the study of the idea of beauty.

Well.. I think art is a way to express one's feeling as well as to communicate with others.
Whether the art is shown as a western way or in an asian way, art tells person's thoughts, feelings, and what he/she have experienced and learned(these can be effected by the environments around us).

The base of the aesthetics these days is westernized.
But I think it is not so important whether it is in western or in asian. They both have the same point in some how. They both are a way to express and to communicate.

Once, in a 'media communicating' class a professor gave each team a picture and told us to wright down what we see and wright down how the person in the picture feels. There were many differnet answers even though it was a same picture.
Which means everyone have different thoughts and feelings which leads to have different communication with art. Also the artist might have had different thought with us too.

This winter I have been to many art museums. There were many pictures. I didn't know what the pictures meant. I as well as my friend had our own thoughts and feelings while looking at the pictures. But later listening to the explaination of the picture mostly it was totally different. Also I and my friend had different communication with the pictures.

So I think for the artist, art is a way to express his/her thinkings and feelings. And for the person who sees the art, it is a way to communicate with the artist and to think about his/her feeling.

The main idea of art in western and eastern is same but just have a differnet style. So nobody can say western art is better or eastern art is better.

Art it self have it's own philosophy and aesthetics.
With that we can communicate.
I can say art is one of the media.