How I Learned To Appreciate Art and Design

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I am going to share with you my story on how I learned to appreciate art and design. I hope that you too can learn to appreciate art and design as much as I do.

I think it all started when I was a child. I would sit in front of the television and watch the beautiful colorful pictures that would be on the screen. Then, one day, I saw a movie called “The Wizard of Oz”. The movie has such wonderful images in it. The whole time I was watching the movie, I kept thinking about how incredible all of the images looked. It seemed like even though Dorothy was in trouble, she just kept on smiling and enjoying herself like nothing could ever get her down.

To this day, there is still so many beautiful images that we see everyday on television that we barely notice them anymore. But back then, when I first saw them, they made me feel so happy and excited to see something that was so incredibly different than anything else!

When I was little, my family took a trip to Europe and visited France. We were walking along a cobble stone street in Paris, when we came across an amazing building called “The Louvre”. My family had never seen anything like it before. It was absolutely huge! We ended

Recently I’ve been getting better at appreciating art and design, both in my own work and in other people’s work. This article is about how I learned to do that.

Art and design are extremely important. Without artists and designers, humans would still be living in caves. This is because art and design are what make life bearable.

Art and design are of such crucial importance that most people will not even notice that they are there. And none of us can live without them.

I made this discovery the hard way. I used to think I was an artist, but it turns out I’m a designer, or at least dabbling in one. Neither myself nor anyone else noticed until I tried to get a job as an artist and found out that they actually want someone who can do something useful like work on an assembly line or clean toilets.

How did this happen? I had been going to art school for years, and no one told me the difference? It turns out that the difference between art and design is more subtle than you might expect, and since everyone thinks they’re an artist, it’s hard to tell the difference at first.

What is design? Design is about making things fit their context. It’s about making things useful and usable for people, who have limited time and attention spans and terrible taste. Design is about using intuition to solve problems where there isn’t enough information to know what is happening.

Every time I went to an art museum with my parents, it was a struggle. I knew that I should like the paintings and sculptures, that they were supposed to be beautiful, but what I actually saw were just colors on canvas or stone: meaningless, boring. It felt like looking at someone’s doodles.

“You just don’t get it,” my parents said, but I was sure that was not true. If only there was some way to learn what others saw in these things–why people kept making them and putting them in museums–I would come to appreciate them too.

But how could I learn to see beauty in forms that didn’t seem to have any? And would it even be possible for me to learn?

I have been an amateur artist for as long as I can remember. I’ve always loved drawing and painting, and I’m also pretty good at it. Many of my childhood drawings and paintings still hang on the walls in my childhood home.

But as I’ve grown up, my interest in art has become more about appreciating it than making it. At first, this was a change forced on me by lack of talent: my paintings got worse and worse, until they were just bad copies of other people’s work.

But now that I’m older, it’s more a choice.

I think this is true for many people who are interested in art, whether they’re artists or not. The early stages are about creation: you make things because you enjoy the process, and you don’t worry too much about whether anyone else will like it. But then you start to feel the need to create something that is truly your own. You want to make something amazing, something better than anyone else has ever made before.

And then you realize that there are two problems with this plan: one practical and one cultural. The practical problem is that no matter how hard you try, your work will never be as good as the things you admire most in the world today;

The most significant aesthetic experience in my life was having a few hours to wander around and look at all of the artworks in both buildings of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. I wasn’t looking for any particular piece, just browsing and taking it all in.

I didn’t have an iPhone with me so I couldn’t pull up any information on what I was looking at, but that didn’t matter. I was mostly looking at older pieces, so there was an element of historical context as well.

The works were presented almost without context, which gave me some time to reflect on them before moving onto the next piece. None of them were explained, which made it easier to come to my own conclusions.

I also spent a lot of time with paintings (which is more than I usually do). The ability to observe one painting for a long period of time instead of quickly glancing over many paintings allowed me to study their compositions, colors and brush strokes in greater detail than I’m used to seeing in real life or reproductions. It’s easy to tell how good the artist is from how convincing the entire piece looks.

As someone who likes writing and considers himself a writer (even if he isn’t yet very good at it), my first reaction when I

I remember the first time I consciously noticed that one picture was different than another. It was a plate of fruit and in my mind, I kept referring to it as the “picture of fruit.” 

I thought that was the right word to use because when I looked at it, I thought “oh there’s a picture of fruit.” So why wouldn’t I call it that?

One day while sitting at my desk, my mom came into my room and asked what I was doing. When I told her, she didn’t respond. After waiting a moment for a response, I turned around to see her standing directly behind me with an expression of sheer terror on her face. Her eyes were big and she pointed at the screen frantically and then ran out of the room.

I turned around again to look at the screen and saw something horrifying: The picture of fruit had been replaced by a picture of fire. There was a fire breathing dragon on my screen!

I followed my mom out of the room crying as she muttered something about needing to hide all the computers from me. She never let me touch them again.

It wasn’t until years later that I learned this was a picture of an Apple logo.

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