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Government Funding for the Arts Debate

Governments should spend money on art for several reasons: 1) Art is a basic human need and helps make life more worthwhile, not just about shelter and food. 2) Private organizations and rich individuals support some art, but it is often inaccessible to the public. Governments have a duty to make art available to everyone. 3) While spending should be careful and avoid political motivations, supporting art is important to pass on beauty, ideas, and cultural expression between generations.

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Government Funding for the Arts Debate

Governments should spend money on art for several reasons: 1) Art is a basic human need and helps make life more worthwhile, not just about shelter and food. 2) Private organizations and rich individuals support some art, but it is often inaccessible to the public. Governments have a duty to make art available to everyone. 3) While spending should be careful and avoid political motivations, supporting art is important to pass on beauty, ideas, and cultural expression between generations.

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Should governments spend money on art?

Art is the product or process of custom arranging items (often with symbolic significance) in a way
that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect. It have diverse range of
human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography
paintings. The meaning of art is explored in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics.

Throughout the ages, man has tried to create beauty through painting, music, sculpture and other
artistic expression. It seems to be a basic need of humans to surround themselves with art. However
some people feel that government money spent on art is wasted, particularly when there are so many
other demands on it.

It can be wrong for governments to spend large sums of money on art. Too often, governments spend
negatively. They spend money on art not because a picture is good or a museum is needed, but for
political reasons. Cities end up with huge statues or empty expensive buildings that are used only by a
few people or the elite. Another point is that the artworks are often chosen to represent social or
political rather than artistic ideas.

The city gets yet another statue of the leader or an ugly monument to national aspirations. A third
point is that governments often respond to fashions, and tastes in art can change very rapidly. Without
careful advice an expensive collection of worthless paintings or tasteless productions can be the result.

However, it would be wrong to say that governments should not spend any money at all on art.
Painters, musicians, and composers cannot survive without financial support. Rich people or large
companies do finance art, but then it is often inaccessible to ordinary people. Governments have a
duty to make this art available to everyone.

However, the most important reason why governments should support the arts is because an
appreciation of art is one of the things that make life worthwhile. Humans do not need just shelter and
food. Creative people have always tried to look at things in a new way and to make the world a better
place through painting, music, poetry, calligraphy, sculpture, dance, and numerous other forms of
expression. While art may not make us immortal, it does make the world a richer place for future
generations.

In conclusion, although people do need to be provided with the necessities of life, such as housing and
medical care, governments also have a duty to provide their citizens with something more. They
should make sure that they pass on beauty, ideas and expression to the next generation and make art
available to all instead of being the possession of only the few. It is firmly believe that spending
money on art is a vital part of a government's responsibility, and it is confident that our country will
be able to contribute its share to the richness of the world's art and creativity.

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