Narora

Students from all across the Peel District school board took part in the Walk the Art exhibit. Only certain students were chosen, those who showed more to there art than just bright, flashy colors and good composition. These students created art that had meaning and that displayed their opinion on current events such as, child abuse, teen pregnancy and the highly debated topic of violence in hockey. These students are true artist who express their feeling on these issues. When art has meaning it can change society in many ways, both good and bad. A great example of this would be propaganda, which forced many young Americans to go to war untrained, seeing as it was said to make them more loyal to there country, when in reality is was a death waiting to happen.
Does all good art have to talk about cruel event in society?
Is it because society likes to see people get killed? Or is it because of the strong message it has to society?
Student taking part in the exhibit must be asking themselves these questions everyday. In my opinion the artists taking part in the exhibit are doing more then just being artist they are becoming heroes. A hero is someone who saves people from harmful things in society. Spider man had to battle against Venom, Batman against joker and now these kids are battling a whole bunch of issues in society. Rather than using superpowers they are using their skillful art to get out the message. The more people know, the faster we can cure the problem.

What I realized after reading about this exhibit, is that a lot of art today displays all the bad things that are happening in society, such as global warming and smoking. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Will all this art, about society’s lack of help, encourage us to change or discourage us due to our own self pity?

Source- http://www.mississauga.com/what%27s%20on/article/659871--young-artists-tackle-issues