What is the relationship between artists and society?

Answer 1

Art is the way in which people choose to express themselves, their feelings, for example, or how they see things around them. Art forms include writing, music, drawing, painting, dance, etc.

The relationship between art and society is a two way process. Artworks often show what the society is going through at that moment in time, whether things are peaceful or not, for example, as well as how individual artists are feeling at the time.

If you were to look at visual art from older eras in time you would be able to see that people in a painting, for instance, aren't dressed as we are now. Language used in writing may not be the same either.

Art is molded by society. It can be repressed or encouraged by governments, for example. It can depend on how the people that make up a society are willing to express themselves. The relationship between art and society varies all over the world and during different eras of time.

Art has also molded society throughout the ages. Images help humans to use their imaginations to reshape and build on their ideas. They also help to pass on these ideas to future generations. You might consider, for example, the very different ideas of human perfection depicted in the art of the Ancient Egyptians and the Ancient Greeks.

Answer 2

it is often a job that artists take upon themselves, to comment on the injustices or just general state of society in their art.