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How Does Art Reflect Culture?

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 […]

St. Greg’s Boys at Wyoming Catholic

Good things coming out of Wyoming from the lads: …”It was a chance to show the world the importance of joy and the affects joy has on people,” Dalimata said… …Members of the group [of SGA alumni] have juggled everything from knives to brooms. Yet it’s always that initial shock and wonder on the faces […]

Conceptual Humor

Sol Lewitt created some pieces of conceptual art; it all reduced to the idea, and made hands-off installation kind of the fun part. Also, conservation: no problem. Here’s some of these pieces. You can kind of do the same thing with humor; pick out something commonplace, or already established, which isn’t necessarily funny. And then […]

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