Art is expression
...nes of acceptability with controversial t-shirts, hair styles, and parental advised-cd’s. The youth of today want to be able to express themselves; they want a voice and a right to their opinion. Kids are expressing and rebelling through art in many forms. Art has always been a form of rebellion and is necessary to individuals. A tattoo, for instance, is not just a way to rebel and anger parents; it is a medium of nonverbal expression. People tattoo beliefs, events, memorials, and pieces of art on themselves for reasons sometimes known only by the individual. Tattoos and peircings are very important to those who have them and are often referred to as extensions of a person’s soul. By constricting a person’s expression; a person’s soul is constricted. It is not right for authority figures to attempt to tell people what they can and cannot express. Many jobs and schools have strict dress codes concerning tattoos and peircings, and many demand that they be concealed while in school or work. Why should a tattoo or piercing have to be concealed anymore than a scar or freckle? It is not right for someone to have to hide who they are no matter if in the workplace, school, home, or in public. People should be encouraged to express themselves; pent up feelings often cause psychological complications and begin coming out in strange and often violent acts, and these acts would be avoided if people expressed themselves using contemporary art mediums such as tattoos, piercings, and hair and clothing styles. Society is denying people the right to express who they are and this is causing identity crisis’s. People in our society are so accustomed to concealing who they are that they lose touch with themselves and this is capable of causing lifelong identity problems. People should never have to deny who they are and should be free to express themselves in any non-violent way they feel necessary. Humans cannot be happy with their surroundings, relationships, or accomplishments until they are happy with themselves, and they cannot be happy with themselves if they do not know who they are and especially if society is telling them that they are something that should be hidden. People need to open their minds and be more accepting of others and their views; it is time to evolve. If people do not learn they will never grow and people cannot learn if they remain as close minded as they are today. Society should give other people’s views a chance or at least accept them as different and respect them. Societies and th...