Wonderful Web site. Philadelphia Museum of Art Photographic study of U.S. travels of Thai students. Doing a Photo Essay, Including KIDS' Participation Photographic Essay on Afghanistan External Site Art as Sociological Method Art expresses emotion. And Western Society does not readily give permission to express such emotion. This is one of the ways in which art can be healing, by allowing that expression to come out in forms that society accepts.
Art also captures a different mode of expression.
The emotion evoked by a painting is real and immediate. Only after the fact do we analyze the effects rationally. And no one is excluded from understanding that kind of real and immediate emotion. Keith Haring gave us, his belief that art was for everyone, in the streets, in the subway, anywhere that people happened to be. Photographers convey history, social change, relationships and terror with the same passion and immediacy as painters and sculptors.