Art, a Discovery.

Art is one of the most magnificent discoveries made by mankind. A discovery which has broadened the horizons of our thought processes and ambition. Art is, indeed, the basis upon which we've constructed everything else. Keeping in mind that a artistic aspect is such an integral under-structure which supports our further ideas [whether it be engineering or mathematics, software design or architecture], I believe it's important to understand and uncover genesis of what we have labelled as "art".

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A prerequisite for art to exist, is the existence of nature itself, whereas in order for art to transcend, to break boundaries and evolve, that's when us humans come in. That's how we have transformed art forms into something which seems to be independent to nature, however, when one dives deeper, they will see that for art to be able to be created, it was indispensable for nature to have been antecedent in the first place.

It might be quite counter-intuitive that art is indeed an inherent aspect of the natural world around us rather than being an invention by humans. Yet, it is the responsibility of humans, who are surrounded by nature, to acknowledge and recognise it. In fact, I believe that art is only second to nature in being one of the most primitive foundations of the world we exist in.

Art, presented in the array of mediums we know of today - cinema, music, dance, tales - are the direct consequence of nature itself, the results of nature interacting itself are the humble beginnings of what we know as art itself. Of course, it isn’t seemingly obvious that the interaction of nature’s elements have formed the abstract sense of art, however, if one dedicates to abandoning the mindset of superficiality which delves no more than above the surface, they will see that the foundation of art is nature itself.

The various forms which we have categorised art into, are inspired by the workings of the natural world; the manner in which the wind embraces falling leaves - the movements which dances embody; the resonance of rain droplets which inspire synths sounds; the natural, scenic, picturesque backdrops in cinema. Now, the magnitude of how art is an ingrained derivative of nature must be becoming more and more apparent.

Believers of different paradigms of school of thought will also eventually arrive at the conclusion that art is a derivative of nature, an anterior abstract in the universe, embedded within entities of nature. Followers of religion, believers in a supreme being creating our universe and those which follow the realist or pragmatic approaches of thought, will arrive at the same crossroad - nature existed before mankind and as I have expressed that nature is the very foundation of art, it so happens that art also existed before mankind - before societies, before communities, before we could even label abstract ideas such as art, “art”. Hence, the linkages made between schools of thought and the constitution of the term: “art”, as we know today, enable us to adopt a view which makes space to cater to an idea that art is indeed a preexisting notion.