Influences

What influences our culture?


Brain storm of things that influence -

weather/Natural disaster
Peer pressure
Education
Politics
law
Public Opinion
Travel
financial means
Other cultures
World events
Medicine
Technology
war
Society itself
Economics
Individual People
Media
Mainstream
Religeon
friends/Family

All the above change and influence culture at the same time.

The greatest influence has been in Technology (find example)

TV
Internet
Phone
Mobile technology
Written word (printing press)
Transport (Car/Rail/boats/air)
Domestic technology to streamline chores
freeze dried food
Space Travel
tinned food
Light bulbs
Metal/Ore extraction (mining)
Paper/fabric Production
Electro magnetic tape
Cinema/Animation
Camera
Pigment Dye
fibreoptics
Computers

all t he scientific/technological advances have changes the way we communicate - and have (as a result) change the way we make and display art to communicate with others.

Art in the age of mechanical reproduction (timeline)

cave Art - Language
Early civilisation - Pigment (writing)
Dark ages - Metal extration (gold leaf used in religeous images)
Renaisance - camera Lucida & perspective
Industrial age - Transport/power/Mass production - influenced the crafts movement
Electronic Age - Computers (Graphic Design)
Digital age - I nternet/Mobile phone (Mass image consumption/Flickr, YouTube &  Facebook)

The technology defined the era and defined the art that was produced by that society/community