In a broad sense, art means sophistication, mastery, creative expression in where perfect results can be achieved. In a narrower sense, this is creativity that follows the laws of beauty. Works of art, even created according to these laws, remain real evidence of the human, national historical and social life of their time.
Art objects created in distant ages and extant to our time allow us to enjoy today and feel the author’s thought addressed to descendants. The masterpieces that mankind inherited from Ancient Egypt and Greece still show us unsurpassed examples of skill and inspiration, which symbolize the connection between many generations of people and their unity in the perception of beauty. The value of art is that it is a unity between the subject, by a person, and by an object - a studied work of art in which the experiences of a person are transferred in a generalized form. Its value lies in the fact that the viewer or reader has the opportunity to touch what worried the author of the work, to agree or argue with him, to compare his actions and thoughts with the hero of this work. This is a dialogue without words, at the level of thoughts and feelings, which can cause emotions much stronger than just a conversation between two people. Works of art like epic, painting, dance, sculpture, poetry or pantomime are very different from each other according to the characteristics of the means and ways of reflecting life events depicted in them. But each of them has a clear imprint of the national historical period in which they were created, and the characteristics of the feelings and feelings of people of that period are generalized. Leo Tolstoy defined art as a way of exchanging feelings between people, whereas he called science a way of exchanging thoughts. Art allows other people to feel the author’s attitude and look at what is happening through the thoughts and feelings of the artist. Thus, art gives us the opportunity to expand our consciousness and pay attention to those vital phenomena that did not leave the author of the work indifferent. Art affects both emotions and the intellect of man. It subconsciously helps the formation of its system of values and attitudes, and not just encourages a person to act. The influence of art on a person and his worldview can hardly be overestimated; it awakens a person’s spiritual abilities, appeals to his best qualities. That is why we need art so much.
