Katie Sparagna asked in her blog: Is art in our society more valued or less valued then other eras?
This question is an extremely difficult and sticky one to answer. To say simply say more or less would not give justice to the tangled web of the art world. There are many ways it can be and are valued in our society. From the sense I received from Plato's thoughts of art in society and what I know of art's importance in that time period, I know that art was what people fed and lived off of. They devoured literature and art as an education and knowledge of the world around them. In this way, I think art was valued as information and a life line to education and being an educated human being and an asset to society. Nowadays, I think art is valued as a side-note education. It is looked as a tool to become cultured and well-rounded.. It is not, however, seen as a main educator for the masses and is therefore less valued in an education sense. We value standardized testing and calculating abilities as a way to test someone’s intelligence and mental strength. There is little emphasis put on art, its creator, and its history in the core curriculum of school and the education system. I know little about any art or artist and I did relatively well in high school. If I wanted to learn more about art, I could take a elective or a side course but it was certainly not required or even necessary to be deemed “good enough” to go on to higher education. This is seen in life too. If you would like to be cultured in or knowledgeable about art, it is an open and encouraged thing but it is neither necessary or required by society to be seen as “good enough” or an educated human being Before it was the only education, and now it is just an elective both in life and in the education system. The true question is that has this taken away from our value as human beings, being less educated in a truly magical craft?
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