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Past and present. Present and the future. If you think about it there is a very close connection to what was before. And even though we do not draw mammoths on the walls anymore, we still hang pictures to decorate out perfectly smooth and painted walls. You cannot live without art, well, actually, you can, but who would want that? Art is purely esthetic, it serves no other purpose except for the pleasure of the community, and that is why we need it in our lives. In today cosmopolitan, wireless culture we need something that will brighten our day, something that will make us feel better when we look at it, something that will leave us speechless when we think about it, something like a piece of art. A picture or a sculpture. And even though it might be a red dot on the white background, that is called masterpiece and costs way more than a fur coat, or an ameba looking woman, or a man, sometime it is hard to tell who is who, it is still beautiful. It is just going through a different stage of modernism, it has evolved. Evolved from the past. But the past is not gone either; it is present, and present in it. The two pieces of art I chose to look at were: statue of Kouros, and statue