This quote is a really great one, “Our art is a reflection
of our reality.” It really means something. In everything that you do in your
life, you reflect who you are and what you believe in. In a very literal sense
when you draw a picture people say they are worth a thousand words. Drawings can
have so many meanings to them and they all have a story behind them. You could
draw a picture based on your home life and about all the emotions you feel
about something. I love when people really go in depth with their art and
really achieve this goal of showing their audience their perspective. I believe
that the people who worked on the album "Straight
Outta Compton" really showed what they were feeling and how they were being
treated by the law. People could understand what they were going through and
the things that were going on in their life. They wanted people to know the
harsh reality that was their lives. When Ice Cube and Eazy-E made diss tracks,
they were expressing how the felt and getting their point across. These guys
wanted their voices to be heard and they wanted to be listened to. When we are
assigned papers to write about whom we think we are or something like that, we
are writing down our reality and what we believe. Everything that we do in our
daily lives, someone is always watching and looking up to us. If you are having
a bad day and you are super crabby people will see how you are acting and realize
that something is wrong. Maybe not around here but in bigger cities you will
see a lot of harsh realities. There are so many kids that, to find a way to
escape, write music or draw or create tracks. Some people write and pour out
their heart and soul onto a piece of paper hoping that when someone reads it
they will feel how the feel and understand what they are going through. Writers
are really great at showing people their reality and what they perceive in
their everyday lives. I would not refer to myself as an artist in any way at
all but the things that I do in my life, I feel reflect me and where I am from
and what I experience in my everyday life. Art can be defined as so many
different things depending on who you are. In my opinion art is something that
you create and make because you want to. It is something that you put time into
and work hard on that you try to perfect. Some people can spend hours upon
hours and days upon days on projects and their art, others can finish something
within a matter of a few hours. When I get older I want to show people my
reality through pictures that a take and I want them to feel the same way I feel
when I took the picture. Now a days anything in this world can be considered
art, you can paint a board black and people will go crazy but to someone it
reflects their reality. Someone who is a great example of this would be Taylor
Swift and all of the music that she creates. All of her songs are based on her
life and what she goes through. She writes about her relationships and the
things that she experiences in her life. Taylor Swift really does a great job
of reflecting her reality in her art and her songs. Each and every one of us has
a very different reality from the next person, and only we really know what we
are going through. N.W.A. did such an amazing job of getting people to know who
they are and listen to them. Their music changed the name of Compton and
hip-hop forever. They all had a voice and something to say, so they did. One song
in specific is “F*ck the Police” which describes how they felt about the law
enforcement from what they have experienced. They weren’t treated the best by
the police and were always looked at as thugs and gangsters because of their
color, but they didn’t let that stop them. They have made an impact on so many
people that have listened to their music, and that is amazing. They all came
from having so little to having so much and being able to make differences in
the world. If you asked us all to draw a picture of what we believe our
realities look like you would have 12 very different drawings showing 12
different realities. If you asked us to write about our realities we have so
many different stories to tell. I think that our voices are the strongest
things that we have and we should use them as much as we possibly can. We all
have a talent and we can all use it to express out realities and create our
very own works of art. People all have different reactions to someone’s art;
they can be good or very bad. When the album "Straight Outta Compton" came out, young blacks loved it and what it
was saying. White adults were very against it and the message they believed it
was putting across. In their opinion it was encouraging violence and abuse and
that certain behavior was ok, but in reality that’s not the story they were
trying to tell. They were expressing what they knew, saw, experienced, and grew
up with. People were offended by this and refused to expect that it was real
and actually happening. The law enforcement didn’t want the world to hear these
things and to believe it, but that didn’t work. I 100% believe in this quote
and it has such a powerful meaning. Everyone has a form of art that truly shows
who they are and what they have gone through in their life and that is the
reality.
