Based on the article, Art Matter written by Brian E. Fogarty, he states one of his reasons that art is another form of communication. On November 4, 2015, St. Catherine presented War is Always With Us by David Byrd, an art exhibit that display individual personalities of veterans …show more content…
The sadness and emotion that Byrd express through his creation of art was beautifully done. The lines, shades and colors of these two paintings have communicated to me in a way where I can feel the sorrow, loneliness, suffer and struggle that the veterans had been through in the isolation of institution's hallway. When I looked at The Cave, all I could see was that living in the hospital is like living in the prison. It is like being trapped in your own minds because there is no way for you to get out of this place, and nowhere to escape from the sorrows that are trying to eat you alive. Thus, you lose the energy you have, and dark clouds forming upon your head like you lost against the world and given up your existent as a person. The veteran must feel this way too, being trapped in their own minds, lost and confused. This is why art matter. Because it can express the emotion that human being can not show or reveal to other. Art can communicate and reveal an astonishingly emotional and beautiful hidden message that no one can imagine of seeing or feeling. As a result, art is another form of communication because it can connect the emotion and idea of how the artist wanted the audience to feel when viewing their