How art gives shape to cultural change

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I have decided to speak about the work of art at the 10:09 minutes. It’s a painting with a lot of colors like green, pink, yellow, blue, brown, and grey. There are two plans: in the foreground we can see tall grass with pink and blue flowers. If we look better, we observe there are a lot of small black and with people in this nature.  In the center, there are only “brown” people (on each other) and all around we see white people with legs, feet, arms, hair brown. The painting is crossed by a lot of bright colors: yellow, blue, pink, white, and red are associated in a kind of “spectrum”. The sharp foreground contrasts with the bluish tones of the black ground where we make out just the moon.  

I like this painting because I think that colors are beautiful. The picture is very living. But the thing I prefer it’s that it’s difficult to figure out this picture. We can interpret this like we want. It’s very enigmatic: the viewer doesn’t understand who this people are and what the “spectrum” is. The night increases the feeling of unease. We have the impression that Nature gains the upper hand on the people. The painting is almost magical.

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Art can change the vision we have of culture and of us. Artist understands and rewrites story. They create work of art and give their vision of society.  Maybe viewers don’t have the same vision of the world and works of art seem all people don’t see. Art is like a dialog between people.

For Thelma Golden, museum is a very important place in the society because it’s the place where we can see the world’s vision of a lot of artist, the place where we can ask questions, the place where we can find answers.  But she asks her if a museum can show artists and do that they are agents of change.

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I’m agree with Thelma Golden when she says “think about artists not as content providers […] but again as real catalysts” because artists make work of art and they give their opinion in the society, their idea. When we watch work of art, we are always us but we win the artist’s vision.  Artists are “catalysts” because they spread their world vision and they accelerate the discussion and the change. Theses works move viewer and we don't forget the message.