Armanda Walton
Pop Culture and the Arts Paper
University of Phoenix
Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way to affect the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, sculpture and paintings. The meaning of art is exploded in a branch of philosophy known as aesthetics.
These terms influence our own personal life experiences, which gives us our perception of the world around us determines how we interpret or create art. Your personality, beliefs or lack thereof, your personal life experiences and your view of life will shape your perceptions of art into a unique interpretation of your own. For example, a rainbow means something much different to someone who sees one right after a tornado that almost killed them than to someone who hasn't had that personal connection with rainbows. Also, if the person almost killed by the tornado sees life from a negative perspective, that rainbow may signify a warning or some other ominous message, whereas a person viewing life from a positive perspective would see the rainbow as a sign of luck, divine intervention, or hope.
My definition of culture would be the ways in which people perceive, interpret, and understand the world around them. These terms relate to my definition of art by people understanding art in many different ways that they believe in. For example people believe in it spiritual, traditional, and paintings. There are many different ways to describe art. I would say that art is created if I am saying or painting something that has never been said or painted before. if I am seeing it in a way that no one else has viewed and the origin of it is spiritual, it can be created. of course with painting, the materials would cause some debate for creation, but the idea of the painting is created. I would also say that art is a manifestation of a vision or thought within a person. it...