Cultural Commentary Along with personal expression, Contemporary Art allows the artist to make commentary on the culture around them. With imagery, shapes, and other varied media the artist can create a dialogue or narrative of their views. When the viewer engages with the piece, they engage with the artist’s dialogue.

Art influences society by changing opinions, instilling values and translating experiences across space and time. Art in this sense is communication; it allows people from different cultures and different times to communicate with each other via images, sounds and stories.

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced in the second half of the 20th century or in the 21st century. Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality.

In addition to its intrinsic value, culture provides important social and economic benefits. With improved learning and health, increased tolerance, and opportunities to come together with others, culture enhances our quality of life and increases overall well-being for both individuals and communities.

Culture refers to the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and …

Culture is the beliefs, behaviors, objects, and other characteristics shared by groups of people. Given this, someone could very well say that they are influenced by internet culture, rather than an ethnicity or a society! For example, Christmas trees can be considered ceremonial or cultural objects.

The term local culture is commonly used to characterize the experience of everyday life in specific, identifiable localities. It reflects ordinary people’s feelings of appropriateness, comfort, and correctness—attributes that define personal preferences and changing tastes.

The most common pop-culture categories are: entertainment (such as film, music, television and video games), sports, news (as in people/places in the news), politics, fashion, technology, and slang.

“Modern culture” refers to the shift in collective thought that took place with the rise in scientific advancements during the Renaissance. At that time, a cultural shift in society’s beliefs began to occur. Classical societies explained nature, various events and their own origins by appealing to pantheons of gods.