The tremendous importance of an artist's rendering rests on its own existence...because it is history in the making. Through creative imagery, the various cultures of the world have been and will be recorded and interpreted through human perception. Emotions, transitions, the meaning of life as humans are living it, are caught in a painting, a drawing, a photograph or in music. To deny the importance of art is to deny the importance of humanity, of being human. The fact is: we exist. We are important. Our lives are not...more