Kindly read the article “What Is Art For?

To help us live better, more flourishing lives" and write your

reflection on the following thoughts:

1. In your perspective, how art can be helpful in attaining the vision, mission, and goals of this

institution?

I think the art can be helpful in attaining the vision, mission, and goals of this institution

through making it as a balancing agent. In the article, it states that, “Art encodes with unusual

clarity the essence of our good qualities; it holds them before us to help rebalance our natures

and direct us to our best possibilities”. With that said, art can be our constant reminder to

always be of our best behavior, leading us to our great capacities which was what the institution

wants for us: to be modest and achieve greater heights.

2. What is art in contextualizing it as a means of learning the discipline and your course?

Art may also serve as a tool of re-sensitization. “Art saves us from our habitual disregard for

what is all around us. We recover our sensitivity and look at the familiar in new ways. We are

reminded that novelty and glamour are not the only solutions”. Art helps us re-think of our

actions and be able to avoid it in our present. It disciplines us and guides us to better actions

and doings. Especially that I am a future educator who should always be in modest and

professional behavior.
3. What is art in the current status of yourself and the situation of the society?

In the current status of myself, Art acts a guide to self-knowledge. “Art can help us identify

what is central to life but difficult to put into words. Visual art helps us recognize ourselves”. I’ve

been into some type of art lately and I discovered that I am more into abstract and that I like

dark and monochrome colors in my work. Art helps us understand ourselves more. As for the

society, art can be a purveyor of hope. “Art keeps pleasant and consoling things in view,

fortifying us against despair”, in this phrase, art can be our source of hope, our reminder that

one day, all the dark moments will disappear and would be replaced with sunny day. Especially

that we’re still in these trying times. Art can be our outlet of what things we hoped to happen to

us, to our lives, and to our current dispositions on life.