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Art And Art : Means And Influence Of Art

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Culture influences art in several ways. Art is not just limited to dipping a paint brush into paint and creating a masterpiece or even using charcoal to create a sketch that later creates a beautiful drawing. Fashion, poetry, theater, and even music are all part of art as well as Culinary Arts hints the name. Even though there are different kinds of art, culture is impacting them in similar ways or sometimes in different ways depending on the type of art.
It is vital to know the importance and meaning of culture. Culture is the characteristics and knowledge of a specific group of people. With that being said culture has a huge influence on anything and everything from the way we speak, dress, or behave. It even influences the way we sit to eat meals, the way we greet and say our farewells to people. As well as our morals and last but not least art.
Paintings and drawings are a mirror image of culture. When a painting is created the surroundings or state the society is in at the time could have affected the artist which would lead to the reason or motive of why the piece of art was created. For example, Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter who had painted the painting Four Inhabitants of Mexico City in 1938. This painting features a tiny child that is an Indian girl who is beside characters that were based on artifacts owned by the Rivera’s. The Rivera’s were Frida Kahlo’s family being that her full name was Frida Kahlo de Rivera. The characters include a Judas, a skeleton, a

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