TOK: What can we learn from the performing, visual and literary arts?

I find art a really interesting topic because there are usually values inside every piece of artwork, which definitely gives us knowledge and probably helps us to develop skills which will help us doing other activities. Arts is one of the most important topics in Area Of Knowledge (AOK) because I believe the main point of Art is to explain history. For example if we go in a museum, all the art pieces will be explaining a certain period of the author, particularly what he was feeling at the time.

Performing Arts, for example drama, dance or music, are the most popular type of arts. It is really hard to perform because you must perform for a certain audience and must be confident in what you do. Performances, personally, is the hardest type of art, because of that need of confidence. Also requires a lot of skills, because you need to have an understand of how to dance, if you want to perform, or if you wanna do something involving musics, you must have a good understand in how to make a song or how to perform a certain song to an audience. The most tricky part of performances, is how to implement the emotions inside the story. For example, if you have to perform a sad story, you must be showing a certain degree of sadness in order to make your character looks real. The way you are going to express your emotions is the hardest and most complex part of performing.

Literary Arts, like poetry, is also a complex type of Art because writing is really hard for most of people. If you want to write a good piece of poetry, you need to have a lot of knowledge. Poetry is the type of writing that requires a lot of understand in figures of style, they usually use it all the time and they are always trying to explain an idea but without saying it directly to the writer. It is not just hard to the writer to write poetry, it is also hard to the reader to understand what is being told. But at the end, poetry is a beautiful type of writing and one of the most complex.

In general, we can see that Art is not a easy type of Area of Knowledge. It might be easy to understand but when we try to do a type of Art, we can see that is hard.

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