#ArtActivism Journal entry #7Art has been a long lasting method in society since people were drawing on cave walls. It’s been the main way for communicating ideas, traditions, stories and so much more from century to century. In the 21st century we see art in different forms, you still have the traditional art, painting, drawing and sculpture, but in 2019 we are seeing new forms. Art has transformed into mass media, through instagram pictures, to Youtube being a new form of art as it still communicates knowledge, ideas, and stories just as artwork does.
My ideas about art contributing in society is that it's definitely a benefit for the community of people that look at the artwork. I'm more of an art history person, I enjoy the history behind art that influences people's ideas and perspectives on topics, because it really shows the power that art has among people. So you could say that my ideas transformed through my time here in college at CSU, taking art history 3 and art in the 19th century. In the modern terms art contributes again in a different form, it takes on a more social element, and even being a form of entertainment. Performance art pieces have become more popular than the traditional forms of creating a painting or drawing based off of a social movement or idea. Art activism as we talked about in class has always been around since the 17th and 18th century where people would create artwork to prove a point or express a different idea. Now in the 21st century we see art activism relating to politics, or a way to express an idea regarding a topic, for example mine was bullying. In class I created a lesson surrounding the subject of bullying, how that affects people's mental and physical health. This idea is more meaningful to me, as I have experienced bullying in my middle and high school years, even in college i've experienced bullying. So this definitely affects the way that I look at social justice, art activism, and art that has a message, when I look at the artwork. If I would have started creating artwork then, during the time I was being bullied, and created an art pieces that had that topic, it would have been mainly in graphite and paint. Digital art isn't starting to become a common medium as computers where still bulky, ipads had just came out on the market and I was still using a flip phone. So the technology would have been a road block, but it would show the progression of my ideas through mediums. As of right now, I feel like I would utilize technology to showcase the advancements art has made in different forms through the idea of art activism.
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