Race, Class, Gender, and Art

Race, Class, Gender, and Art

Introduction

Artists use different ideas and culture to represent their thoughts in their art work. Artists seek innovative and creative ways for employing their artwork to strengthen and improve communities. At present and since the time of its establishment, artists portray their thoughts through their artwork for the improvement and betterment of the society. Thus, there is a great significance of artist's class, gender and race in portraying their thoughts (American Visionary Art Museum, 2006). Some artists give priority to the culture, race or ethnicity to which they belong in order to strengthen and support their ethnicity. Some artists portray their thoughts related to other culture, race or ethnicity for representing their thoughts related to other cultures and traditions. Thus, there is a great role of the world of arts in changing and modifying the thoughts and perceptions of communities. Communities are being impacted with the thoughts of artists which they represent through their artwork (American Visionary Art Museum, 2006).

Discussion

There are many different cultures present in the world. Different artists represent their different thoughts related to the some culture according to the culture or ethnicity they belong. However, there are many artworks available which highlight the importance of some typical culture and race (American Visionary Art Museum, 2006). Many artists represented their thoughts related to discrimination based on age, gender, race, ethnicity, class, religion etc. through their artwork. All through history, visionaries have dreamed about the world where their innovative potential is boundless, their characters are not judged or their lives are not set by the aspects of economic circumstance, race or gender (American Visionary Art Museum, 2006). Artists are making their efforts to eliminate any kind of discrimination from the society with the help of their artwork. Some artists who belong ...