Art reveals creativity. It can promote innovation. It can highlight cultural diversity. It can promote development and progress. It can foster human fellowship.
Art is timeless and boundaryless.
There are artists who produce big monuments. Some others work on simple sand dunes to bring out the best creativity in them and make us think.
Some use acrylic paint while others use the humble charcoal. Some can convert a barren land into a rich plot decked with trees, flowers and green cover.
The best artist I have known is o jiur creator God whose deft hand and creative mind have fashioned this universe. What humans do is to imitate or replicate God’s handiwork in very miniscule shapes and forms. Some have even attempted to produce shapes of gods and goddesses in various models according to their imagination.
Creative minds can bring out the best formation from an idle rock piece. There are those who can chip and carve a piece of wood into a lively human figure, a dancing girl or a mother’s sorrow.
Now digital and computer art is throwing up challenges. Art is good and valuable in so far as we use it for the benefit of humanity.
Let us celebrate the great artistic creativity of our Creator God. Let us also appreciate the creativity of human beings to produce, mould and replicate shapes and forms.
We need to encourage artistic imagination in people. School children can be helped to bring out the best in them by fostering in them a sense of art through training and guidance.
“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.” Don Miguel Ruiz