CGSS: Arts, Culture and Tradition Reading Package

Cedar Girls’ School English Department Page 1 of 21 Western: Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, Duchamp, Andy Warhol, Banksy. Eastern: Georgette Chen, MF Husain, Ai Weiwei, Yayoi Kusama One who creates with great skill and imagination: a skilled worker. Reflection of themselves and their society; Influencers; revolutionaries and radicals; messengers Modes of expression that use skill or imagination in the creation of aesthetic objects, entities, environments, or experiences that can be shared with others - philosophical: a form of reflection - moral: as testimony, critique and record of what happens in society - instrumental: promote ideas and propaganda, convey messages, unite people - functional : design, generate income “the way of life, esp. the general customs and beliefs, of a particular group of people at a particular time” – Cambridge Dictionary 1. Consists of material and non -material components 2. Shaped by geography and history 3. Culture is learnt 4. People are products of cultural experiences but not cultural replicas of one another 5. The tool that enables the individual to adjust to the problems of life 6. It is difficult to separate the effects of non-material and material cultures on behaviour 7. Ideas, materials, products, and inventions can be borrowed from other societies. 8. The home culture is usually the standard that people use to judge another culture 9. In every society there are groups that have distinctive traits that set them apart from the main culture “a belief, principle, or way of acting that people in a particular society or group have continued to follow for a long time, or all of those beliefs in a particular society or group” – Cambridge Dictionary - Inculcate identity, beliefs, values, conventions of behaviour in a population - Establish or legitimize institutions, status, or authority - Establish or symbolize social cohesion between communities - Differences: greater connectedness from globalisation may produce more diversity instead of reducing it - Homogeneity: globalising forces of (predominantly) Western capitalist modernity penetrate and absorb other cultures; soft -power exerted by rising THE ARTS CULTURE TRADITION Definition of culture Definition of tradition Names to know (visual artists) Roles of the Artist Definition of the Arts Functions of the Arts Features of a culture Function of culture / tradition Globalisation & culture / tradition

Cedar Girls’ School English Department Page 2 of 21 powers like China, India, Korea can influence other cultures too - Many traditional cultures have evolved and survived globalising forces

Cedar Girls’ School English Department Page 3 of 21 Arts, Culture and Tradition – Contents Page Past-Year Essay Questions 3 THE ARTS 4 Types, genres, examples 4 Defining the Arts 4 Some important visual artists through the ages 5 Some functions of the Arts 9