Do you influence society already? In which ways? Do visual arts affect people to make physical & mental choices? How does your artwork influence people?
2006-12-31 08:39:05 · 7 answers · asked by Stony 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
All I want to do is let people know ,"Hey! This is the way I see the world. Can you see it too?" That's it. My job it just to point things out to the folks who might miss something I notice. The best compliment I ever got as an artist was when someone saw some trees and said,"Those look like 'Zoltar' trees." He knew my paintings and saw in nature what I was trying to show him. That's all artists really do for society. But what art does for the artist....well... that's a whole different question.
2007-01-01 02:44:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I personally don't influence anyone with my art. However, I have attended Wildlife art shows about 6 or 7 years ago, and I believe that has had a positive influence on me. I have become increasingly interested in wild animals and also the environment since viewing the beautiful artwork of world renowned Wildlife artists, such as Mathew Hillier.
2007-01-02 04:18:00 · answer #2 · answered by gwynne 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Influencing society is extremely overrated, often thankless, and rarely pays.
Art in the traditional sense (a painting, a sculpture) hasn't really affected society in ways I can concretely determine.
Music, on the other hand, has certainly had an impact. Other folks mentioned opera. More recently you can look to Sting (who is thought to have prevented a missile war with Russia when he recorded and released "Fragile" in English and in Russian) and even David Hasselhoff - who has charmed entire European countries with his dulcet voice.
Dancing - styles of dance - tend to sweep nations and annoy parents. The waltz became a society-changing event. Recently you can look to break dancing, and now crunk, as defining certain societal groups.
Ultimately, societal change through art is the homework of overzealous college students. My opinion.
2007-01-01 14:15:40 · answer #3 · answered by Margarita 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It all depends on what message is in your artworks.
For example, an opera triggered a revolution in Belgium, some works by Verdi also caused trouble in certain parts of Italy. Picasso's "Guernica" opened many people's eyes on the atrocities of war.
However, I think that art is generally influenced by society, wars etc. not the contrary. The examples above are rare exceptions.
(now I have second thoughts about documentary cinema and photography ... should be investigated deeper.
2007-01-01 05:47:51 · answer #4 · answered by jacquesh2001 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
influence society ?
I dought that any artist in the western world can influence society even from the largest fine art galleries
but you could influence someones pocket if they invest in a good painting
2007-01-02 19:19:39 · answer #5 · answered by Dimitris C. Milionis - Athens GR 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
influence is inevitable with any action....the ripple on the pond with the pebble thrown in. what that effect is, is beyond the individual.
some artist try to influence a large number (society) and others
a more immediate surround.
2006-12-31 20:37:04 · answer #6 · answered by mali 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well im currently working on a series titled empowerment. like one is an image dealing with racism one is about charity an so forth. im hopeing someone might be touched in some positive way by it. it is a little abstract so it makes you look at it an maybe bring out the persons own interpertations an feelings an maybe make them question what they think? i dunno
2006-12-31 21:16:41 · answer #7 · answered by peeps you 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋