Again, not sure about what's fine to post, but I read up on the CONG guidelines and I believe I'm not overstepping anything
Just speaking from a personal perspective, art is very important to me, in all forms. It's the greatest way to express oneself, or as I've learned over time, can also be used to represent a collective group. Often, with history, comes oppression to all kinds of groups and with that, we've seen art continue to facilitate those experiences to others. Sometimes, art goes against what certain societies see as normal, but that's what makes art interesting. Take it away from a political sense - just art as a whole - it's difficult to understand any manifestation of anger, because anger seems wrong, but as I've read more and more, and drawn more and more, the more anger seems to understandable. (Understandable does not mean correct, it just means you can see where the anger stemmed from) There's always some reason behind what leads to anger, some qualities that evoke a sense of humanity in characters, because whether we like it or not, we can all relate to it in some sense.
Another factor of art is that it can capture history from someone's point of view. In my aforementioned post, I mentioned that poets have always used the art form to stay strong. That's why I do find it somewhat saddening when people don't look to all sides of art, and the reflections of it in reality before forming an opinion of fact and more emotional stability. Sorry if I said anything eh, but I don't intend to suggest anything bad. It's just something I really like about art that I feel is relevant in the modern day (And in all time really), that I'm worried isn't being noticed
Edit: Just wanted to mention that other than this, you can easily access a lot of objective historical facts from many resources!
