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Not everyone enjoys art museums. I have a large weakness for them, as it so happens which is why I wanted to go to the Art Institute of Chicago when I visited the city. I think that, in art, people are allowed to let go of a little, if not all, of themselves. Art is much more than just the paintings that have been put in our history books or that we have seen in the living room of every house that we have ever visited. It is the release of emotion on canvas. 

The colors that you see, which perhaps make up a face or room or nothing at all, have been placed there by individual stroke. Whether carefully placed or happening by accident, art is the doorway which allows us to access emotions through the eyes of another. All art happens this way, not just the painting or drawings or writings. Art, in any form, is unique to person and acts as a doorway for the people that are allowed to witness it. Art broadens our minds, allows our brains to function in a completely new and complex way, a way that is unlike it could ever be without it. This is why our children deserve to participate in art and music courses in school. Allow the broadening of mind and encourage independent thought. We are naught without complex thought and open mind. 

catch you later,

Karleigh

"I think we are worlds compressed into human form." // Jeanette Winterson, The Daylight Gate