Why does art exist
Emotion
Le Radeau de la Méduse (The Raft of the Medusa), 1818 – 1819
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
Théodore Géricault, 1791 – 1824
Provoke a sentiment
Art can evoke a profound emotional response, creating a visceral reaction and expressing a natural, instinctive, or intuitive state of mind – one's feelings – on a deeper and more heartfelt level.