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It’s not celebrated anymore. Look at your language - art is “frivolous”.
Why does everything have to have a purpose? Why can’t something be created because we can? I’ve said this before - in a thousand years, how many of our structures will hold up as well as the structures of antiquity? None.
Imagination created the seven wonders of the ancient world. China builds a wall to keep the Mongols out and people flock to it as a marvel of engineering that has a sense of beauty behind it. It has soul.
Trump wants to build a wall to keep the Mexicans out and even if he possibly could do it, you just know it would be a disgustingly ugly monstrosity.
I’m not interested in knowledge without beauty. It’s boring, cold and sterile.
Art is largely frivolous.
That isn’t to say that I don’t appreciate it. In fact, along with a few other things I’d say that the appreciation of art is something that separates humans from other animals. Art is the difference between a functional square warehouse and the Taj Mahal. I concede that buildings today are generally not as beautiful as they were hundreds of years ago. Although if you showed your mate Jesus the Q1 in Surfers I reckon he’d be suitably impressed.
Creativity exists inside and outside of art. It can be functional or completely inconsequential. Both have their place. ‘Art’ is the extra, non essential tassels on life. It’s also, quite possibly, the most enjoyable thing about being human.