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Artistic Expression - a little history: Years ago, artistic expression was in immediate relation to people’s livelihoods, and our history was documented by paintings on walls and vases. Children apprenticed with adults to learn trades that they were expected to become masters in if they wanted to eat and feed their families. Everyone needed to become a master of a certain skill, and they needed the artistic expression to make their skill favored above others. If they could not do this, they could not survive in the world. Then the industrial revolution came about and Artistic Expression became little more than a hobby for the eccentric. Arts and crafts started being taken out of schools and people stopped appreciating the hand-make. Yet, in the midst of the chaos of these sad facts, there is a silver lining.

Though the old masters have long since died out, learning artistic expression has never been easier. With the birth of the internet, all manor of tutorials have become available to teach anyone who bothers to look the details of arts and crafts. Many such tutorials are available right in this website.

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Allegory of the Cave:

There was once a document written by a Greek philosopher named Plato who wrote a story called The Allegory of the Cave. This story discussed shadows on the walls of a cave. He imagined that if people were bound and chained so that they saw nothing but the shadows of others on the walls of a cave, these people would come to believe that the whole world was this cave and these shadows; and that finally coming out of this cave, they may even believe that the real world was nothing but a dream.

Our world today is becoming a shadow of the world it once was, artistic expression is nothing more than a shadow of what it once was. The industrial revolution helped us in so many ways, but it also hindered us in so many others. Imagine now what could be possible if we combined the ways of today with the ways of yesterday. Imagine the world that could be created if people would begin again to dream, to create, to influence. Imagine the world where everyone had their own artistic expression, and took the time to develop and create it for others to see and appreciate.

 

World of Drawing:

Though there are many tutorials and informational pages on artistic expression within the drawing section of Crafty Art World, below is a short list of the more recent additions to the world of drawing:

• Disney Peter Pan
• Photoshop Tutorials 1, 2, 3, & 4
• Graphic tablets

For a full list of drawing tutorials, visit our World of Drawing.

Crafty Creations:

Again, though there are many crafty-related artistic expression tutorials available in the Crafty Creations section of Crafty Art World, below is a sort list of the more recent additions to this site:

•  Holiday Crafts
  
  • Origami hearts
  • Easter Crafts
  • Christmas crafts

For a full list of our craft tutorials, visit our Crafty Creations.

Using these tutorials:

These tutorials and informational pages are designed to teach new ways and techniques of coloring our world with the individuality that makes each of us who we are. They are designed to show people all the different ways that they can achieve artistic expression.

That said, if you have any recommendations or questions please contact us. Or, if you have created your own piece of artistic expression, feel free to submit it to our gallery!
 

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