How Does Art Affect Society

Art is a personal experience that we must treasure be it from music, architecture or created visual arts. This is what we often depend upon to identify a culture and art truly defines a society. Here in America, depending on which region you are in, you will see vastly different visual art style. One of the best representations of this is tagging on box cars; there you are able to see the vastly different art styling that is shown throughout each region. The different variations lead me to the question,” What function does art serve to society? How do we break art down into objective measurements to understand what an artwork is about?” These questions may lead to the discovery of how we define art, the cultural use of art, and how art and …show more content…
When humans changed from the nomadic people to the agrarian culture we have today art flourished. When we finally were able to sit down and create for the sake of creation art flourished which developed many trade skills such as pottery, metallurgy, and chemistry. Art has affected society some important ways. For example, without art we would not have the great engineering works that DaVinci developed from his love of art and science. Art’s most powerful statements often come after wars or changes of political power. We can see this in the Romantique period of Europe’s art history. At this point the European artists were commissioned to show the greatness of Queen Elizabeth I. From that point all artwork including her were very striking pieces using straight lines and vivid colors to give the impression of her power. If we then look up to American art during WWII we see the Rosie the Riveter campaign which was commissioned by the State to make women feel empowered helping fight this war from home. Here we can see how organizations use art to rally their citizens and make them stand up even higher for their