We concluded in the very beginning that every work of real art actually creates a new layer of humanity. Having this in mind let us list a few points, which have been developed thus far and some of the obvious offshoots thereof:
- If a work of art represents a new world, and this new world speaks to us, then it invokes new feelings, new language to express ourselves, new views on our relations to one another, et cetera. Thus, an artwork creates new layers of the human way of life; in other words, new insights on humanity itself. This was said in the very beginning.
- Particularly important is that the relations of people to art are essentially the same as the relations of people to one another. Since the arts are developing these relationships, they bring the new human ways of life to society.
- In doing so, the arts disseminate ideas, which are exclusively human to desire, to value, to be interested in, to hate, to like, to fight, to encourage, to ameliorate and so forth.
- Beyond that, the arts bring in ideas in exclusively human way, via aesthetic form, thus developing the human ability to perceive.
- Remember, the virtual world of an artwork must be recognizably ours and intriguingly strange in order to work. Thus, the very ways a work of art influences us, comprise some fundamental features of human nature: curiosity, empathy, and reflection.
- A work of art directly enriches personalities of its author and its audience because it develops new faces of their alter egos. These faces are able to understand that new work, its language, its new aesthetics, and new interpretations of human-to-human and human-to-universe relations.
- Arts develop the spectrum of the simplest human senses via the development of new genres and kinds of art.
- Particularly, arts develop further and deeper basic sensations of space, time and movement.
- Arts develop the sense of historical time and universal space, which translates into the sense of total unity of humankind throughout time and space, particularly beyond national boundaries.
- It is the arts which develop the basic of all basics of the human way of life: dialogue or free communication.
- It is within the arts that people develop, employ, and revel in their most powerful and fundamental abilities -- creativity and freedom.
- Et cetera.
If we go farther back in time to when there was virtually no art, we will find that no human way of life had yet been developed. Arts create humanity, amount to it, and vise versa: no humanity emerges beyond the arts. It is important to stress that humanity is measured here in all possible dimensions: ethics, aesthetics, feelings, thoughts... everything that makes a human being specifically human.
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