Art etc...

this was the question i chose for this week's discussion. i hope it makes sense. i think i kinda went off topic at some point, i don't know.

Why do we need art if we already have active imaginations?

When an artist creates a painting, drawing, sculpture, or anything that is aesthetically appealing, they are giving the viewer the opportunity to look into their mind for one moment, to poosibly understand what it was that they were feeling or thinking when they created their piece.
Take, for instance, some of the great works of art from Picasso, DaVinci, VanGogh, Bernini, Dali, and Velazquez. They all put out so many wonderful examples of how they saw the world in their time, and shared their ideas with the public. Without these viewpoints there would be a great decline in the amount of art in this world. Not only because the artists wouldn't be displaying their art or even creating them, but also because differnt artists were inspired by each other and sometimes worked off of one another's ideas and techniques.
So in a way, depending on how you look at it, if you took away art, you would really be taking away a part of the "active imagination". Slowly, the creativity found in humans would decline and could most likely be non-existant after a short period of time. Therefore, art is one of the many links in the chain of the "active imagination" and taking it away would make the imagination weaker.

-Juliana