While reading “The Art World Expands” I began noticing a trend of how the art that was being created reflected what was going on in real world or society. These pieces interpreted what was going on around the artist and how they responded to that certain situation or problem. This is mostly notable in recent decades, particularly the 80s where there numerous changes were starting to happen around the world. For instance, improvement in technology like; fax machine, laptop computers, and first ever cell phones. However, that was just small portion of the changes being made. There was a woman who was appointed to Supreme Court, also an American woman (Sally Ride) traveled into space for the first time and later on in another decade African American women (Mae Carol Jemison) traveled in space as well.
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But, with all this achievement that was accomplished there was also problems and tragedies that happened. The Massacres in Rwanda the state of Africa and Terrorism that led to destruction of monumental buildings and numerous deaths in United States on September 2001. Which drove to warfare in the Middle East for several years. With all the change that's happening in the world for decades why wouldn’t the art community expand and change, artist are normally affected by the things around them and become inspired by them.
I believe the most significant examples of this would be “Robert Mapplethorpe” traveling exhibitions of photographs in the 90s showing homosexual activities. You may be wondering why would photos have big impact on art world and it expansions, well during the time when those photos were taken (LGBT) artist were targets chaos and unable freely express their work or receive funding for it. By Robert putting his photos on display he basically rebelled against basic ideas of art world or society in whole and created an opening for other artist to showcase similar work as
But, with all this achievement that was accomplished there was also problems and tragedies that happened. The Massacres in Rwanda the state of Africa and Terrorism that led to destruction of monumental buildings and numerous deaths in United States on September 2001. Which drove to warfare in the Middle East for several years. With all the change that's happening in the world for decades why wouldn’t the art community expand and change, artist are normally affected by the things around them and become inspired by them.
I believe the most significant examples of this would be “Robert Mapplethorpe” traveling exhibitions of photographs in the 90s showing homosexual activities. You may be wondering why would photos have big impact on art world and it expansions, well during the time when those photos were taken (LGBT) artist were targets chaos and unable freely express their work or receive funding for it. By Robert putting his photos on display he basically rebelled against basic ideas of art world or society in whole and created an opening for other artist to showcase similar work as