The value of abstract art

As described by Tate museum, “Abstract art is art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of a visual reality but instead uses shapes, colours, forms and gestural marks to achieve its effect”. 

The less something is rationally understood, the more we have to feel. Abstract art can pull this off very well. What challenges our ability to feel is the modern day cultures of efficiency and capitalism. These ways of living can be very rationalistic and easily forgets the beautiful childlike impulse to move with feelings rather than linear thought. Abstract art is a way to feel what makes us uniquely human, that is the rawness of our emotion, unobstructed. 

A threat to what makes us human is the rise of AI and those who adopt its qualities. We become what we surround ourselves with and I am afraid that people will adopt the rational qualities of AI. As we rely more on this technology to do the work for us like writing an email to the work colleague or texting that high school crush, the more we lose touch with ourselves. An email full of plushy words but a sender of hollowness who never felt those words in the first place.  

Our feelings and emotions will become invaluable as time goes on.

Your emotions and human qualities are being mined by AI. Never will it be able to fully adopt what it means to be human, but it sure as hell could take that away from us.

Your sensitivity is a rarity only reserved for spirited creatures. Protect it.