Art & Society

Art & Entertainment
Entertainment is an art. There are many types of entertainment in the world in the form of movies, music, comedy, etc. Acting, directing and script writing can all be considered a type of art that requires artistic skills to perform. Entertainment like art is a creative outlet for people as well as a leisure activity to relax and enjoy. Of our lives that we’re given and in the daily routines we employ ourselves in entertainment gives additional meaning to life with the pleasure derived from it. There are many people says music or dancing it everything to them. It also creates a huge industry in itself allowing those artistically inclined to make a living supported solely by the rest of us who needs entertainment even though it does not fill our stomach, inform us or educate us in any major way.
Business, Science & Technology
Art does not exist alone on itself but merges with all these three items. Art can be a business and businesses are always using art such as in advertising, because art is a powerful medium. Science and technology always use art as well. In studying anatomy or inventing ideas. Art also employs science and technology as artists like Damien Hirst use to preserve his artworks or as simply as spray painting or digital art.
Communication & Media
Communication and media can be from news channels like CNN, entertainment venues and to paparazzi in the form of print materials, television, radio and the internet. Mainly it’s a way to deliver a message to someone or a large group of people. Art is also a media for artists to communicate with the audience. They can communicate even social or environmental messages like artists like Ron Mueck or Lucia Hartini.
Disadvantaged & Marginalized
We are so far away from Utopia and today amongst us are many those who are poor and discriminated. Art has brought some of those people who were peasants, farmers or slumdogs out of their misfortune such as Constantin Brancusi or Dede Eri Supria. And when these artists become known for their art it is their backgrounds that are reflected in their work. Brancusi’s minimalistic and abstract sculptures are influenced by his Roman background. Supria paints the slums of Indonesia and speaks for the people from the slums who lives in bad sanitation and cramped slums full of garbage. Art can still be appreciated by anyone rich or poor and it could be the one thing that could bring us together like music for Bob Marley.
Education & School
These are required and expected for every common and class of people to have in order for you to escape poverty and fit in with the rest of the people. Children from the age of five starts to conform to the expectations of society where they start to learn and compete in school because that is the ONLY way to having at least a decent livelihood. Especially in developed countries like Singapore it has been a must and it is quite normal. In a way it is quite suffocating as you never had a choice but you do it just because you need to. The world has been set up by those before us that we have to fix our lives to fit in that world. Because it is more efficient and it leads towards an economic growth. This is in contrast to the self-sustained livelihood where your survival did not require you to fulfill society’s expectations. Artists in a way have that advantage because they don’t produce art for people to like and they have a whole lot more room to be individual.
Family & Home
Families and homes are the largest or the only group of patrons and producers of art. Because society is but a circular flow where one becomes what the other needs today.
Government & Leadership
Art has been employed by governments and national leaders. Art has a great power of delivering a message. It could be used as propaganda used by Hitler to create a nation full of brainwash soldiers big enough to cause the Second World War However, the government may also be the entity who is blocking the use of art and may have policies against certain type of art with bans and censorship. Because art is used by the people in the society for political messages all the time and its ability to emphasize a point in a light hearted way such as a political cartoon have the greatest impact on people.