Building Identity Through Art | It’s Possible: Art

What’s the impact of culture in the Emirates? And how is Art used to express identity for a Nation and its people? So many questions and themes tackled by Tarsilla, Dod, Majd, and Maisoon through their journey of discovery, perseverance, and success in the world of Art. #ad

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[nemo]

Art literally saved my life, after being diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer my mental health took a nose dive to the point were I was seriously thinking of taking my own life as opposed to allowing the cancer to take its inevitable course. One day I just decided to paint, something I hadn't done since I was in high school. It was just a generic Bob Ross style mountain scene and was not very good but what it did was calm my mind and focus on the present while not thinking about the hell I was in. All feelings of suicide seemed to leave me and after an extremely talented surgeon cut away my lung and lymphoid gland which saved my life I decided to carry on exploring my artistic side and after being diagnosed a further four times with cancer it became just as much a necessity to keep my sanity as much as a hobby to pass the time. I can't afford to go to art school and even if I could my body is so badly damaged the simple act of leaving the house is too much to bare. Instead of going to school I taught myself through hours upon hours of videos online and instrucional pdfs from artists like Andrew loomis. I love art, just when I thought there was nothing more to learn I find something new to challenge me. My art gave me a vocabulary I couldn't find to describe how my feelings and the challenges of having cancer, I tried so hard to put into words how I was feeling to my wife but no matter how hard I tried I couldn't make her understand but through my art she has a clear understanding now. I still have cancer but now my focus is on portraits and finding the beauty in life I once took for granted.

[duo]

12:25 The emirates? As in, uae hired vice to help soften the country's image? No no no no no no no

[myhumbleperspective]

This will realized to those who didn't appreciate and give deeper understanding towards art, that art is powerful than we think.

[svartorivigt]

This didn't feel like a VICE video. More like advertisment.

[saraIJL]

I LOVE ART, I have depresión and anxiety and to paint it’s getting me through this

[vashaunmann]

The “uncertified”artist really be the best!!!!

[walylama]

What Vice calls "official art" we call artificial.

[wendilandkammer]

Glad I found this video. It's another part of the question I've been rolling around with for awhile. Art, identity, expression of inspiration v.s art as the expression of the person as the filter. Art becomming the person or does the person become art.
I'm pondering this because the answer hopefully will make things make sense.

[conjuredcreatives]

This channel was one of the inspirations for me making mini documentaries on my own channel.

[TitiniusAndronicus]

Art is an expression of the human spirit - a communication from the human spirit to the human spirit, and to the divine.
Only people with numbed human spirits, who exist in the survivalist part of the brain, question the usefulness of art.
If art is an expression of the ego, created in pursuit of fame and money, then it is an abuse of the human spirit.
There has been a lot of abuse in the past 100 years.

[boarbot]

Hmm title seems to be exactly the same as a pretty famous book….

[paulwoodford]

it’s true, the father was correct to think she was joking. She’s not a famous artist

[kipp]

Great video. Interesting hearing the perspectives of emerging artists in a community that is still establishing it's identity.

[andreaaldrich]

I think it's good for the artists to be seen but I don't know how one of the artists can say the Emirates has a blank script there when they actually have a dark one. I would have rather heard about artists there who recognize this.

[stella-vuvh]

Propaganda, Advertisements, Creative Bliss, Hot Sand, and Men's Rights: UAE living. But really, art is something you need to do if you even have an inkling of a want to do it. No medium can limit you, and you can't limit yourself to one.

[tomclydecostamero]

Art is everything. Everything is art. Youtube is art. Vice is art. Documentary is art. Even this comment is art. Even you is art

[lemmetellusum]

"L'art pour l'art" Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier (1811-1872)

[BANKUREACTS]

the ocean does not submerge with raindrops.

[lazylion]

wait so we're going to talk about human rights in the Emirates but we're only going to focus on art?? you guys might be burying the lead here...

[iamloveiam]

All I see, I Love, for All is I 🙏❤️☀️
@iamloveiam 🎨