What is the cultural frame in Art???

Question

Could you tell me what the Cultural frame in art is? I have an art exam tomorrow and we did nothing on the Cultural frame but we know its going to be in the exam!! Im in Year 8 so don't make it all scientifical or artsy...you get what i mean ...i just need enough so i get a good mark....yeah...THANKS ALOT!!

Answer 1

Simply put:
If you live in America you make American art. If you live in India or Africa you make Indian or African art. The culture you live in influences what you make.

That frame of course does not limit itself to a country. Cultural can also be religion, time or era (thing Greek and roman art) or even political or musical preference.

What an artist sees, thinks, experiences every day is his cultural frame.

Answer 2

The art of each period did not arise out of nothing. In each case it reflected or expressed the feeling, mood, state of culture or even the dominant political policies of the time. This background to the production of art at different times, is the cultural frame.
I don't know what you exam is on. But perhaps it is the Renaissance. Renaissance art was known for its perfection of form, for harmony, balance and beauty.
If you go to the site I give you below you will rfind the "cultural frame".that is: Humanism was the basic concept of the Italian Renaissance - term used to define that philosophical movement in Italy (end of 14th century , 15th, 16th c.) that stressed the right of the individual to the use of his own reason and belief, and stressed the importance and potential of man as an individual. (this reflected too, in the fact that Renaisance painting/drawing, people were drawn in a natural fashion (not stiff as in Medieval times) and artists studied anatomy of the body). There was belief in that time - for the first time - in the power of learning and science to produce "the complete man". This rational and scientific conception of the world is the basis of our modern civilization.
I hope this is helpful.
http://courses.washington.edu/ah361/resources/summary.html#ideas scroll down to Humanism
At same site you will see a title "Classical in Renaissance" this refers to the aspect of the cultural frame of the time where everything classical was admired - resulting in artists of the Renaissance striving for harmony in their work.
I hope I have made this clear.
Another example is Pop Art - which arose against a cultural framework of great emphasis on material things, consumer goods.