Art helps give us an alternative reality it helps with the imagination, I tuition, fantasy, illusion, make-believe the uncommon dream, which allows us I problem-solving. And come g up with all sorts of situations to problems where be fire, we had no answers. But through the imagination, the unconscious can all what it once couldn't. That's what art can do trigger the imagination.
Human motivation based on emotional involvement and imagery does this.
Art helps humans escape boredom. Craft may accelerate and motivate human efforts to evolve faster. The brain cerebral needs visuals stimulation. Cambel 1973