More Reasons Why Art Is Useful and Important

Computer art is useful and sometimes important for education as well an entertainment .From sketches of synthetic extra-terrestrial planets to some really excellent civil war drawings of Lee's army of Virginia crossing the Potomac on their way to forage for food and war in Pennsylvania in which Taoist water, wood and mist settings with a few fuzzy logic soldiers leaning on muskets as if they were staffs for a long journey while they waited on a small boat amidst the reeds along the shore, art may inform us of history and brief us on philosophical or scientific concepts. Symbolism in art works may be very fine today including presentation of imaginary portrayals of the big bang and inflation.

Such cosmological art would have been exploited by the pre-Socratic philosophers if they had time away from interminable war with the Persians, Spartans or whomever was taxing their time. Word art in writing is also helpful for illustrating points. The art of logic and the art of chess are skills, yet they are also developed with singular styles as one's ability allows. 'The Portrait of The Artist as A Young Man' by Joyce leads us toward 'Finnegan's Wake' and a wealth of comparative linguistic and historical ideas regarding the potential for word construction and meaning.

Wittgenstein, Sartre and Quine were all probably aware of Joyce, Lewis Carrol was a linguist and something of a logician who invented his own language as well as an alternate fiction reality. The creative mind of the artist may even find its way like three quarks for muster mork into naming the constituent units from the Higgs field at the smallest level providing the strong force to hold things together so far as we know or guess.
Some of the good artists educate as well entertain. The use of symbols to convey meaning has few arbitrary limits.