The Last Dangerous Lunacy
- THE LAST DANGEROUS LUNACY - black ink and black color pencil drawing on an 11 x 14 size coquille board. It appears in a book, "Refugees From An Imaginary Country," by Darrell Schweitzer, published by Ganley-Owlswick in 1999.
Most people think of art as something to enjoy but not as something necessary for their survival the way a job is, or a home, and it has no practical, material life-sustaining purpose the way food does.
And yet . . . at the dawn of the human race, when the first men on earth huddled in caves with only thoughts of surviving one day at a time, they managed, out of necessity, to invent spears and stone axes to kill the beasts who wanted to kill them. They discovered how to build a fire, to chip away at a rock to make it a sharp-edged tool that they used to cut away the meat from the beasts, to eat and to remove the hides to make cloaks to keep themselves warm . . . And for some mysterious reason they drew pictures on the walls of their caves, artwork that was apparently an important factor in their struggle to survive.
To the extent that a man is motivated to learn, and to understand the world around him, his ability to have control of his life is improved.
The world of art is an important motivator and a showcase of who we are and what we understand about our mysterious existence in time and space.
"Of all human products, art is, perhaps, the most personally important to man and the least understood." - Ayn Rand
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