Does Art Reflect Culture? How is art reflective? Primarily this article explores how 20th century art reflected the culture around it and discusses contemporary examples of how any made thing reflects the culture around it. ———————————————————————————————————————————————- From time to time I have heard the expression that “art reflects the culture around it”. I was curious about what that […]
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How Does Art Reflect Culture?
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Apr 2012
I often think of the act of creating great art as a balancing of universal and particular elements within a work. The artist must walk a tightrope, to borrow an idea from Juliette Aristides; his balancing act is between two extremes, but in order to keep his balance he must distribute his weight into both […]
Category: Art, beauty, Poetry, Shakespeare
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I found this to be an excellent meditation for the Triduum to look at William Adolphe Bouguereau’s works which follow the passion and resurrection of our Lord. Bouguereau is one of those French academics who was accused of making “bad art,” the world criticized him for embodying what was wrong with the outmoded French Academic Classical […]
Category: Art, Artist, Arts of the Beautiful, beauty, Catholics, french, Painting, Realism, William Bougeureau
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