Art For Art's Sake

Is art ever art for art's sake? Should it be?

I do think there is art for art's sake and there is much refinement and enjoyment that one can receive from such art, in any form of expression available to the humankind on earth in 21st Century.

But art itself imitates life and life often strives to imitate that of art, at least in my own personal life and observations has been true thus far. I think when art gains a deeper meaning and allows us to see the painful truths we have become adjusted and blind to. It packages our values, ambitions and goals and neatly represents them in another perspective that we can clearly see what the outsiders sees and what we are unable to see.

What do you think? Am I far off base here?

Comics

Sometimes, all I can seem to handle is read through comics, manga, and watch anime mindlessly to numb everything down. But as a surprise of many, possibly, it only furthers my own damnation to my own isolation, forsakenness, and the morbid nature that decays, slowly sometimes, fervently.

I know that there are many people who think that comics, manga and anime are for children only and for light amusement, and perhaps for entertainment. I disagree. There is so much of detail, thoughtfulness and art that goes into creating and drawing the storyboards, the panels of comics and manga. The characters have to be just as real as literary who have to be just as real as real people existing among us, with us. They have to create interesting story worlds, think about theme, elements, style and to unify them carefully and cohesively so that while reader may get other lessons and morals out of the story, but also at the same time, receive a similar understanding of the story as the next person.

So the next time you make slight of these forms of art, think again.