How Art Created Culture The function of art in society has been well-known to have many different advantages. Societies learn from art, they tell stories through art, they express ideas through art, and they create legends and icons through art. The power of visual human expression, in paintings, sculptures, and reliefs, moves individuals into thought and action. Even if one is not a visually creative mind, they are still inspired and influenced by the works of art that are commonly seen on a daily basis. The contents of the art, the color, style, and function, create feelings in the individual, create a belief structure, whether spiritual or intellectual.
Art has taken on many new roles and different forms which have influenced culture greatly in today’s world. New artistic ideas have impacted everything people do on a daily basis. The different styles of paintings, architecture, music, and sculptures are all influenced by someone’s vision of something unique and has expressed it through their art. The clothes we wear in this day and age to the foods we eat is how far art has transformed our culture. Artists are willing to express their art in society giving us variety of different forms of art to admire and look at it.
This expression of emotion when observing art leads to better comprehension of the artwork and the artist’s emotions that he experienced and expressed while creating a particular piece of art. For this paper I am arguing that expression of emotions through feelings felt by an individual when viewing or hearing some form of art is what allows for an individual to have an aesthetic experience. There are different ways that emotions can be expressed, both through feelings and behavior. This may appear redundant at first glance, but one can feel something or have some type of experience completely to oneself in one’s mind without the need to have those emotions expressed physically through one’s behavior. Expression and how it is defined conforms to many different contexts.
There is nothing harder than trying to grasp what was shocking or illuminating about certain images, or ways of making images, once the shock is gone, and we have all absorbed this bit of visual data into our own vocabularies. Artists show us new ways to see familiar things, and how to interpret new situations and events through various kinds of visual shorthand. This creation of visual language may be the artist's intention, or it may be a side effect of other purposes. So what are some of the purposes that art fulfills? Probably the oldest purpose of art is as a vehicle for religious ritual.
Culture as a concept is important to sociologists because it holds a society together. Rules, laws and morals guide our behaviours and creates stability and order throughout societies. Morals come from religion and our parents: different kinds of morals differ between social groups. Subculture is a culture within a culture. It shares definite features in relation with the dominant culture, but it also has particular values, norms, attitudes and behaviours that is specific to it.
In this way we are able to know the behavior of people and their living style. The culture they follow and the different activities done for the survival in the society. The art can be visual and decorative art, which includes the painting, sculpture, printmaking, etc. And also music, theater, film, dance and other performing arts also are included in the art. In this duration of time what the people were like and how were they able to manage their living style is the main curiosity among the people of modern era.
An art is described as being an expression of human creativity and imagination in visual form or production of works which can be appreciated because of their beautiful outlook. Art is mainly used to convey ideas or information in a creative way through self-expression of the artist who is involved in creating it. According to Bingham and Jane (2010, p914), different forms of graffiti have been of great use in getting an insight into the lifestyles of people who lived in the past. In the same book, the author explains the different types of graffiti which include: gang, a form less artistic and usually carrying message of threat or territory; mural, large masterpieces which are artistically motivated; tagging, which are highly visible and artistic names of taggers. Recently, many governments have come up with anti-graffiti laws to help curb this art.
Influence of Visual Media Paper Entertainment media has shaped American Culture and its values in many ways. One of the ways is that media has educated many on how to be more healthy and to have a better lifestyle. It has also made people more creative, making them realize what culture is all about. We as a society are shaped by the ever changing entertainment industry. People can be influenced with visual media because they can find it relatable.
New technologies have also revolutionized the concept of visual arts, in areas such as web design, which has a great impact on today's society. Art is a human experience that transmits aesthetic knowledge and express ideas and emotions in the form of an artistic object (drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, etc.) and that in itself has its own value. Therefore, to appreciate art is necessary to learn about it. Learn to observe, to analyze, to reflect, to criticize and to issue opinions based on tastes, styles, materials and different ways of making art.
For me the examination of the human condition and a deeper understanding of human behaviour, social norms, morality, and the workings of the mind, allows us to fulfil our desire as a species to search for our most basic truths. I feel Art to be one of the most fascinating and diverse disciplines we can look to in this endeavour. History of Art permits us access to world cultures, their beliefs and ideologies, their history's, all through a single object or artefact. I have always had a keen interest in philosophy and a passion for Art, and my enjoyment of the two has lead me to develop and pursue what has become a fascination with the History of Art. In recent years, I have been fortunate enough to spend extensive periods staying with family living in both Paris and Mougins (a town that has been frequented and inhabited by artist, including Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger,and Man Ray).