To Save The World

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she walks away. The next person glances at the painting, thinks "oh a sun, that's cool" and walks away. The last person stands staring at the painting for a moment. He thinks about how his grandfather can no longer go outside and see the sun rise, and buys the painting for him. The point is that that one painting had three completely different reactions to one simple painting. And that is what art is, one thing that has so many different aspects and so many different meanings all at one time.

Art has pretty much a part of society since the very beginning; it has been around since the literal Stone Age and can still be seen today. The purpose of art is to influence things around it. For example, the very first piece of art ever discovered is cave paintings from the Cave of El Castillo in northern Spain, and may be more than 40,000 years old. And 40,000 years later, paintings are still around and one of the most known forms of art. Art simply a competition amongst artist in ...

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