The Role Of Art In American Culture

I am going to answer this question by first addressing what makes something art. For many it used to only express and ideology and was made for churches and commissioned for royalty or religious leaders. That notion has changed and for the better. Art is a fundamental human aspect that takes expression in many forms. The creativity shapes cultures and highlights the expertness. For this paper I am going to focus in only visual art such as sculpture, paintings and installations. Art reaches many mediums but my focus will be on the natural progression of art throughout American culture and how it is so drastically different from its beginnings and why this is a problem for our society.

The wildness of some current contemporary art is all in the spirit of its movement. This is fueled by the need for experimentation. The current climate of our surrounding culture is hard to pinpoint; although in all honestly it maybe be hard to classify a movement while still in the midst of one. Conceptual art removes the aesthetic standards, skill, purpose and meaning of true art. It diminishes the word. This division pulls the public away and what remains are the …show more content…
The once rigid and strict field that took a lifetime to master evolved to believe that technical craft and ability aren’t nearly as important as finding something to say even if it is unclear. The work must now be require further explanation to be considered true art. Otherwise it is to obvious and if it is to obvious it is than it isn’t sophisticated and therefore it will not be impact. But this did not come from nowhere.Our modern world is full of click-bait and 6 second videos. These are not necessarily wrong or bad things but reactions to a world with so much content, and media ready to be absorbed. They way I see it was there was a combination of factors that lead to someone being able to putting a piece of trash on the ground and calling it