What Adults Don't Know about Art

I am a big fan of the works of The School of Life. I love their books and YouTube videos for making a lot of things related to mental health, relationships, art and architecture more accessible.

I love this book and I wish I had read it when I was in my teens. I have always been taught to look at “Art” as a highbrow thing. A thing for erudite, elite and cultured mind. I have believed that I need put hard work to understand and appreciate it. In that process, I have seen that I have bored the people around. I sometimes become weary by myself. Be it a visit to any popular museum or a documentary movie.

This book dispels that myth and makes art more intimate. It teaches us to put ourselves, our lives and our emotions first and look art thru our lives. It frames it in such a simple and nice way - how do you feel about the posters in your bedroom. It makes us approach art thru that and teaches the “purpose” of art for young minds. I loved the book and I really wish my son picks this up to enrich his life.

If you are curious about art and culture, want to instil that curiosity in your kids or your inner kid, this is an awesome read.

Kind and sweet book, which I, as an adult, found useful and instructive in how to understand formal art, as that's something I've never had. I think for children, which the book is arrived at, it would be even more useful, and I wish I could have had a book like this when I were a child.