Art, is often heralded as a counterweight education experts in education / teaching and learning activities, but is it true?
As an extension of the question, its also raise below two question below:

Do we really understand the meaning of the word (balance)?
Do Art and Culture is to balance?

A vessel, if the charges exceed the carrying capacity increase, will always run lopsided (either next to where). If the vessel is allowed to continue so, how long the same ship will survive transport to the ’state’ of the same?, What if exposed to large waves?, Drowned?, Broken?, Or sank?, Or ……?
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Traditional agrarian society in the past does not distinguish between art, science, technology and religion, but more integrated in social and religious life itself.

The word techniques derived from the Greek word techne paired with ars (Latin), meaning a useful skill. This is the forerunner of the name of art, science and technology.

Before the Industrial Revolution in Europe, says ars includes disciplines of grammar and logic of astrology. In medieval Europe occurred distinction Artes liberates the ars group or groups of high art which consists of areas of grammar, dialectics, rhetoric, arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy. While Artes serviles or arts groups that rely on low-power and connotes rough “carpentry”. Of the seven areas of expertise, only the music that goes high art, while painting, sculpture, architecture, manufacture of weapons and the means of transportation, including the category of low art.
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Firstly, new techniques, especially those produced by the digital revolution, could very well portend a process of demystification in the arts. Many exciting new art products come into being. Moreover, digitally produced and digitally distributed music, images and moving images will be cheaper to produce and to distribute than their predecessors were. At this time, some of this phenomenon’s products are de facto free, but that situation may not last much longer.

On the one hand mass-produced new products are reaching larger audiences all over the world. On the other hand the smallest scale at which products can be profitably produced is becoming ever smaller. This means that there is more room for larger varieties of specialized products. Moreover, fragments of older artworks, be it legally or illegally, are increasingly being incorporated in newer works, thus rendering authenticity an ever more relative concept.
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The acknowledgment of the importance of reputations helps in understanding the extensive presence of innovation in the arts. At first glance, there seems to be little award for innovation in the arts. There are no laws protecting innovation in the arts. Although copyright laws protect actual products such as texts, melodies, dance steps or images, copyright does not protect the innovations in the inherent artistic styles in an artwork.

In theory, patent law could protect some of these innovations, as it does in industry, but in practice, patent law is not really applicable in the arts. The law requires unambiguous criteria. In the case of industrial innovations, these criteria are supplied in the form of specifications. Descriptions of styles, however, will always be ambiguous.
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After the gold rush, the vast majority of miners end up leaving to try their luck elsewhere; the gold rush is over. Why has the ‘art rush’ lasted so long? Why do poor artists stay or leave at a much later point in their careers than one would expect, and why do so many newcomers arrive to take their places? Why is poverty structural?

First of all, it should be noted that nothing is permanent. Overcrowding and large-scale poverty in the arts are relatively recent phenomena, becoming widespread only after the Second World War and these conditions could very well disappear over the next fifty years. Nevertheless, this book has tried to show that, for the time being, current conditions help maintain an exceptional economy of the arts and poverty that remains structural.
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