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J.Ariuntuya

Art to Da Vinci

I was very curious as a child. Everything called my attention
and understanding. I believed that there should be things more
real, more live, more colorful than the things I could actually see
around me. So I started touching everything, every material and
felt them. I took them by hand, touched or tasted the materials,
cut them or ripped them. Then my surroundings, people around
me and nature became wonders to me and I started drawing on
everything I could find—papers, notebooks, newspapers and
even the walls and floors. Clothes, curtains, journals, everything I
happily cut apart to make a new artistic creation. For my brothers
and sisters it was obvious that I was an undisciplined child.
My sister was interested in paintings and would tell me about
famous artists. When she told me Leonardo Da Vinci, I felt
a passion to become someone like him and to make great
artworks equivalent to his and within that dream I saw myself
been called ‘The Great Mongolian Artist Ariuntuya’ in the history
of arts. These things influenced my artistic career a lot. My
father happily supported me when he heard I wanted to become
a famous artist. Also when I won the Arts Olympiad, I was
delighted because it encouraged me a lot.
Children take things as they are and express themselves without
wearing a mask. That is why their expressions convey pure,
precise, and important messages to the world. On the other
hand, experience of feeling and building art play important role
for their future.

To create new things, to be able to see from different
perspectives, to enjoy beauty and to adapt to new
circumstances with distinct impressions are the abilities we can
learn from art and this makes life more rich and more interesting they learn to appreciate beauty and to understand aesthetics,
and helps us to be positive. so their view of the world becomes brighter. When one is
conscious, positive and full of enthusiasm, one always creates
Art is a universal and eternal language that has a power to goodness filled with brightness. Development of the city,
touch any human in any country. Art is a unique instrument that country and furthermore of the whole world depends on the
can convey feeling, emotion, concepts as well as values and level of consciousness of each and every person.
symbols which cannot be expressed through words, actions,
and ordinary communication between persons. I feel I am getting closer to peace, happiness and freedom.
People usually attribute happiness to fame and affluence. But
To share interesting things such as one’s views, feelings, or the world is rich with more meaningful and precious things.
experiences, to question the audience and invite their reflection, When an artist exhibits his or her artwork, a seed is planted in
and to influence our environment and social consciousness every spectator. That seed could grow into anything. So I look
through art is the duty of the artist. forward to spreading everything I want and sharing with others
through art.
I think art influences a children a lot. Not only does it teach
technical work, harmony, and history, it reaches into their hearts Ariuntuya Jambaldorj, winner of the 2nd Arts Olympiad in
and creates positive and creative personalities. When children Mongolia, graduated in fine arts and is a professional painter in
are exposed to art, their creativity, capabilities of freethinking, Ulaanbaatar. Her works have been exhibited in many countries
altruism and love for things, nature, and people develops, and and she has won several awards. She is a teaching artist,
gradually they learn to express themselves freely. Furthermore inspiring kids to realize their potential and build their future.

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