Some people think that the government should subsidise art programmes Topic: Some people think that the government should subsidise art programmes. Do you agree or disagree with this opinion? ------------------------------------------------ My essay: The lack of funds has become a severe problem facing the artists and art organizations and it will impede the sustainable development of art in the following decades. Some people suggest that the governments have the responsibility to subsidize art programs and encourage the public to engage in them. I quite agree with that viewpoint. Most of the time, art has an indirect impact on our daily lives and is easy to be neglected by people. People are more likely to pay attention to those which have an obvious effect on the development of our society, such as science, technologies and economy, and art is just a thing which usually appears in their leisure time. Due to this misunderstanding of art, few people are willing to pay for it and such behaviors have jeopardized the survival of artists and art organizations and are leading art markets to vanish. It is unrealistic to count on the help from the public, so under this circumstance the governments are required to give a hand to the art programs. First, plenty of funds need to be subsidized to maintain the development of art program and then the government should leverage the power of media to engage people of all ages and in all parts of their life to understand what the art is and how indispensable in our life. In my point of view, the loss of art will erode our cultural identity and impair the national pride and social cohesion and the governments should try their best to help them pull through. The role of governments in art propagation is difficult but inescapable.