What do I know about art? Art can be appreciated in many different ways, music, paintings, poetry, and even fashion; art is what we love and what we do with passion. Also, it is a way of expressing our feelings and emotions. Art represents us; we can show the world who we are by doing art, it defines the kind of person we are. In the book, “what I know about art” by Kimberly Drew, Kimberly tells her story of her love for art and how art has contributed to her life since a very young age. To her, art became a lifestyle and a way to introduce Life to others. Growing up in a world where society minimizes and discriminates against African American people could get as frustrating as it is, this is why she created a blog, to illustrate and demonstrate admiration towards African Americans; she created this blog so she could show the world black people’s talent and their artistic contributions to the world. She was inspired by many talented black artists to instill in people some of her cultures. As she quoted in her book, “If a race has no history, it has no worthwhile tradition, it becomes a negligible factor in the thought of the world, and it stands in danger of being exterminated. A country without a history is like a person without memory. One should never forget our history and our past, where we came from, Kimberly created this blog to remind people of the beauty within their culture. It is so important to educate ourselves with our country’s history because we should always know the lands that saw us grow and to know the value of our people we must know our history. Kimberly believes in the potential of her people, and so she decides to support them by posting their works for the world to see it.
Art has a lot to do with photographs because just like art photography captures unique and real moments. I can relate this book to the article “photography” by Sontag because both are ways of self-expression. As it is mentioned in the article, “ Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are.” I identify with this quote because I’ve seen and I have felt the way art makes people feel, the happiness and all the sentiments that music causes in me, and the amusement every time I see a drawing. I can completely understand Kimberly Drew and the purpose of this book and the blog. She wants people to feel what she feels by seeing all these people’s work, her people’s work. I feel her angriness to see how her people are being mistreated and how they are not receiving the value that they deserve. Thanks to her work, her voice is being heard, and that’s the meaning of art, to be heard.
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