Art and Life in Security Context

Abstract

The arts have functionally intertwined with almost every facet of human lives-the most obvious being in the socio-cultural and religious aspects.In the more remote periods and ages, the arts (essentially dance and performance, storytelling and poetry recital, and body painting and object carving, and many more) are usually tailored towards securing politically and economically stabled community.Thus, the arts have been important tool in the sustenance and preservation of human existence and the creative recourse has dated to prehistoric times, when life and security sustainability was equally measured in terms of artistic representation of experiences.From the genre of the arts, the visual arts have steadily grown in their importance to human sustainability on earth.Moreover, art and life have become inseparable in the understanding of human evolutionary processes and security, but the arts have not enjoyed much attention in literary domain in its provision as security to life and property.This essay, therefore, discusses particularly the visual arts as major signpost in human security context, illustrating with instances and materials, forms and types of the fine and applied arts that serve as security tools across different ages and peoples.It shows that religion, art and architecture has all the while been inseparable trio in our determination of security of life and property, and that advancement in modern technology has also assisted in blurring functional distinctions earlier known among art, religion, spirituality and architecture.

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