An Essay On The Importance Of Creative Arts

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In the development of a child into a youth creative arts plays an important role in fostering creativity and education geared towards the development of a whole nation. It is very sad that people have this wrong notion about arts as a profession being mediocre or inferior. According to (Wangboje 1990: 7–10), arts is the main foundation on which our life and human existence holds. We are all basically consumers of arts because the furniture around as, the houses we live in, the clothes we were and the flowers and lights we use for decoration are all products of arts. The ability to tell if a painting or graffiti is nice or not balls down to our experience in creative arts being it as an art person or a viewer. Therefore, it is genuine to say that without the products of art, the human environment cannot exist.
The importance of creative arts on a nation building through education and academics is of great effect. According to Agbator (2004) a good art programme in a formal …show more content…

Global statistics of culture and creative arts show that in countries that create very good policies for its growth and development, and execute the policies with great efficiency and efficiency, creative arts contributes substantially to their respective economies. As reported in 2013 by the National Endowments for the Arts(NEA), arts and cultural production contributed $704.2 billion to the United States economy. $44.5 billion of this amount was contributed by performing art services in Ghana. This huge amount of money was just not generated anywhere or by anyone but by the creative industries in Ghana which include arts-related retail trade (i.e book stores , art galleries, and music) broadcasting industries (except for sports) , motion picture industries, performing arts companies and independent artists, writers, and performers , publishing industries and creative advertising services. Also the creative industries contributed £87 billion to the UK economy

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