In a broad sense, art means sophistication, skill, creative self-expression in where you can achieve perfect results. 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.
Objects of art, created in distant centuries and surviving to our time, allow today to receive pleasure and feel the author's thought, addressed to descendants. The masterpieces that humanity inherited from Ancient Egypt and Greece still show us unsurpassed examples of craftsmanship 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., a person, and an object - a work of art under study, in which a person's experiences are conveyed 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 evoke emotions much stronger than just a conversation between two people. Works of art such as epic, painting, dance, sculpture, poetry or pantomime are very different from each other in the characteristics of the means and ways of reflecting life events depicted in them. But each of them bears a clear imprint of the national-historical period in which they were created, and the peculiarities of the experiences and feelings of people of that period are generalized. Leo Tolstoy defined art as a way of exchanging feelings between people, while he called science a way of exchanging thoughts. Art allows other people to feel the attitude of the author 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 life phenomena that did not leave the author of the work indifferent. Art affects both emotions and the intellect of a person. It subconsciously helps the formation of his system of values and attitudes, and does not simply induce a person to action. The influence of art on a person and his worldview is difficult to overestimate, it awakens the spiritual abilities of a person, appeals to his best qualities. This is why we need art so much.
