Art imitates culture. Culture can be defined as, the customs, achievements, values or beliefs of a particular civilisation or group.' Artworks can be defined as real objects, as material, physical and virtual objects. They exist as representations of ideas that reflect such things as personal responses, cultural views, symbolic interpretations and critical re-interpretations of other ideas Culture has been referenced by the artists Giselebertus, Umberto Boccioni, and Jeff Koons. Giselebertus' The Last Judgement, gives an insight into the beliefs and cultural practices of the Romanesque period in France c1130, where Christianity dominated the world and the anxiety imposed, Millennium,' approached. Boccioni's Unique Forms of Continuity in Space (1913) reflects the speed, motion and machinery of the 20th century culture. Koons Michel Jackson and Bubbles (1988) is an imitation of the consumer society in which we live in today.
Giselebertus', The Last Judgement' gives an insight......
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