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 for  me when we study the history of civilization, It suggests that we do need art, and that art is basic to human expression. This seems to be equally true to those who make art and those who simply admire art. Art can be found in all cultures of the world either expected or unexpected, intentional or unintentional,functional or non-functional.

All cultures are made up of similar parts- Religion,Government and Education. Values affect not only what people believe, but also how they live. Cultures Change as people of different cultures interact with one another.

Now , Let me know what you think about this matter?

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The fact is that  Art (all types) is language - just as math (in all its forms) are language.

The fact that not everyone can speak, read, or write in anyone of those languages does not stop them from being a language.

Are they needed?

Apparently, since they have been been with us (humans) since we began and have continued (sometimes flourished) up to the present day.

Further, the real 'art',  in the arts, is in the exploration of the previously un-noticed or unseen.

Art came before science. It became science. It sets new pathways for today's science, and finally, provides the mirrior against which to weigh the change/gain/loss in civilizations' pursuits. Art is language; and should it go away, I suspect everything human about us would disappear, too.

[That is no small claim because as I define science as everything we know, know about, and have ever applied,  art has been the doorway; science just the key.]   -KD

Human children forced to live without developing language (any "language" more evolved then rudimentary glottaral grunts or barks, and non-standardised, inconsistent, gesticulations) prior to approx. twelve years of age, have generally died in adolescence or early adulthood. But in no case where they observed to acquire fluency in any language introduced to them after that age. (This is not entirely dissimilar to what was once referred to as "reading readiness" in early childhood education, when describing the ideal age for attaining literacy.) And we don't exactly have a lot of research "subjects" on which to draw conclusions, nor do I invite the ethical lapses that could create conditions necessary to prove or disprove the hypothesis.

What any of this serves to demonstrate is that human beings (homo sapiens sapiens -- my opinion) are so intrinsically "wired" for symbolic, and abstract, reasoning that life itself, never mind species survival, can't continue long without it. In fact it's a mute point -- or would be -- because without that ability and our capacity for language which followed, we wouldn't have evolved to our present condition. I think I'll go paint a cave wall now...seems a good day for it. Or, I could just talk about!

Even the most primal civilization, the cave man developed some sense of art, crafting weapons, painting on walls as Montlaurel pointed out,  but they expressed their fears and hope in spiritual aspects in worshiping fire and dietifying  (probably spelt that wrong.) animals and creating rituals and their own sense of religion to explain what is beyond their comprehension. Do I have evidence of this. No, but many cultures like the Native Americans used dance and song to worship and tell stories and the arts in what ever form they may take come to enable that expression of fear and hope that lives in on in a man's heart.

Tom Whisper~ (The Devil is only a whisper away...)

Art touches all areas of life; everything around us has been affected in someway by art.