short essay on the efficacy of art

in the third grade we were making art out of paper glue wooden sticks and glitter each of us working diligently without any ideas or notions that the subject of art is in the eye of the beholder nor were we aware of the battles waged over every form of art regarding form content viability and durability when a classmate turns from his work and says to us that we’ll all hate his piece because it is ugly we comforted him as best we could and said no it’s not it can’t be when he smiled turned to us with his piece held high with UGLY written in large glittery letters and so thus began our education of the bigger world