Lest we all turn to squiggles...

There is a current topic among many many people who claim that young people don't appreciate art anymore, but I would like to offer my opinion in the matter.

Art, as we all know, is constantly evolving, and it has many, many branches. From the classical music to the famous Picasso, from ballet dancing to traditional folklore, but is that all there is to art? the people who argue that younger generations have lost their love for art claim that it's video games, television series and "music" (for some genres aren't considered as much as art mindless screaming), but, if the perspective is tweaked in a small manner, it would have momentous effects upon the perception of "young kids art."

Video games are my favorite example of how art has evolved in the last few decades. Truly, the first video games were mindlessly simple, but they have transcended their bytes and pixels and, dare I say, developed a heart. It is hard to play a good video game and not say it was an awesome experience, or to say that it had absolutely no effect upon the person. Some video games go as far as to outright surpass the television screen and emotionally affect the player. If this is not art, then the reaction caused by the Mona Lisa's amusing art cannot be considered anything more that a tidbit. As for television, endless hours are placed into producing a visual experience that will present different versions of reality. We will most likely never see a talking sponge nor glittering vampires in real life living their daily lives, but even a novelist (if novels are still an art form, that is) should agree that anything that navigates our minds unto different worlds has successfully accomplished the same task as story writers. In terms of music, at last, it's easy to see that variations are great from time to time and space to space, so much so that we have everything from Gregorian singing to pipeflutes, so why shouldn't a very well coordinated mix of technologically produced sounds, singing and instruments be considered art.

In short, art is not being lost nor is it disappearing, it is merely evolving, as it always does, so all those who fear artistic desolation should be put at peace. I empathize with you, but we will not revert and turn to squiggles.