Ever since technology has taken centre stage, real art has been cast to the shadows, argues Emily, 14, from Hong Kong.
Our creativity has diminished, art has lost its meaning, and masterpieces have been forgotten.
Do you remember the time when art was marvelled, meaningful, and alive?
Picture an artwork worth millions. Do you think of a banana duct-taped to a wall?
This is not true art.
When I say “true art,” you probably think I am a stuffy young fogey who loves only pictures like Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”. But I am not referring only to the classics: I am talking about any art that holds meaning and represents talent, not an image generated by ChatGPT. Think about murals in the city or the doodles in your notebook.
There are fewer and fewer artists in this world. It is not hard to believe that in a time where AI is advancing rapidly and replacing many skills.
Why pick up a paintbrush when you can simply press a couple buttons on your keyboard and get the same result? When people only have their mind on the finished product and not the process of creating art, the importance of making art is lost.
Art should be about pouring your emotions on a canvas, painting stories with colours, and that just cannot be done by a robot.
But this is not just a side effect of technology. It is a sign of our cultural decay.
In a 2010 report and a 2017 follow-up study, we saw a decline in children’s creativity, and that decline has continued. The modern world, dominated by academic focus, has slowly caused us to conform rather than innovate. Young artists have had their talents caged to fit in and their passion crushed.
Additionally, the global art market fell by 12% in 2024. Many people see these statistics and ditch their passion for art, afraid to become a starving artist. But a more financially stable career does not mean you have to give up your hobby. Even something small can keep your passion going, such as creating a collage out of used newspapers.
A world without art is a world void of beauty, creativity, and culture – dull, bare, a mental asylum. To lose our creativity is to lose our individuality. Imagine a world where everyone is a carbon copy of everyone else.
Maybe you could argue that art is not dead, but evolving. The real question here is, is it for better or for worse?
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L - Stanborough School
In my opinion, art is not just a decorative splodge of paint on a canvas, art is a gift that we all have. Our imagination is more than a canvas filled with paint, we only paint to explain our emotions. I hope artists carry on painting wonderful pictures because most people can relate to the emotions painted on the canvas. We all have imaginations, so we are all artists.
L
Its not lost its just waiting to come out while AI has a little time to shine. Soon people will understand its not true art.
B - Stanborough
I don’t think art is that bad because its creative.
F - Stanborough school
I think now art has got alot more basic and not as intresting as it used to be.
Ryan - 8K
Art is no longer from the mind it’s from robots or chat gpt.
F - Stanborough 8z2
I think that art is deforming not evolving. This is quite bad as if we don’t have any imagination to create art, we will lose the creativity to create anything. So for an example we will rely on chat GPT to create things, so as a human we won’t be able to make laptops or things like that.
Maisie
I think that technology has gotten so out of hand that we forgot what it was like when technology wasn’t around and even I think myself is on technology too much but I think that technology like mobile phones are really addictive and is slowly taking away our humanity.
F - Stanborough School
Personally there are still artists out there its just people don’t take it seriously and they don’t put thought in their art.
lenny
I think art is not dead lots of people love art but 50 percent of it is by a ai or some sort of a robot .
Mia - Stanborough
We are losing our creativity, as we evolve we slowly lose things that were once highly cherished. ChatGPT could be great for sparking an idea, but creating only isn’t right, we need to pour out our emotions. This isn’t right.