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As the time passes by and the changes in the society, the art industry has changed too. Art and paintings used to be something that is only accessible to the upper-class community, such as religion and the royalty, the kings and queens and then the rich families. Nowadays, arts are accessible to everyone as a lot of them are commercialized or ' expressed in regional dialects and styles' (Markus. G, 2013) to attract the audiences from middle and lower classes.  Art museums face some problems because of this type of changes. ' They need to conquer new audiences, renew their pool of regular visitors and develop a policy based on interesting events, in order to survive in an environment characterized by a multitude of genres and venues for the creation and dissemination of culture. No longer able to rely exclusively on the conservation and study of their collections, classical art museums are stakeholders in a world increasingly focused on contemporary works' ( Larceneux....

There used to be a huge and obvious gap between high and low culture where only elites are associate with high culture and only the lower class are associate with low culture.  Our society changes as the time passed by. Now there's middle class people between upper class people, which also known as elites, and lower class people. It also have some changes between both high and low culture as this happened. For example, only the elites are able to watch opera, play, ballet and musical. But now a lot of middle-class people are able to watch musical as the musicals nowadays started to develop some characteristics of pop-culture, such as songs' genre, dances, and plots.  Hamilton, a musical and a Broadway show that has been running since 2013 has included both high and low culture in it. Singing , acting and dancing are always included in almost every musical, just like high culture's operas, plays and ballets. But to attract more people from different community, the cre...

Even though there are some gaps and obstacles between high and low culture such as cultural literacy, but there are a lot of cross usage between high and low culture by borrowing or stealing ideas. Fashion is one of the most famous examples. Fast-fashion such as Zara, H&M and Forever 21 have been using the ideas from high-end fashion to keep up with the fashion trends that has been or might be going on in the future. For example, Zara has been stealing or borrowing ideas from high-end fashion such as Dior and Balenciaga.  The one on the left is a top  from Raf Simon's Dior SS14 collection and the right one is a   t-shirt from Zara's campaign in the summer of 2014.   There's also some high-end fashion brand using the ideas from low-culture. For example, Balenciaga had unveiled a leather bag which looks oddly familiar with Ikea Frakta bag d uring April 2017,   .  The bag on the left is Ikea Frakta bag and the bag on the right is a Bal...

Culture is a term in used in sociology to represent the way of living by a society and also used to putting people into groups in the society which they belong. For example, there’s high culture which usually associate with elites and low culture which is for the ‘middle-class’ and ‘low-class’ people. In the book ‘Culture and Anarchy’ which is written by Matthew Arnold, an English poet and a cultural critic, the term ‘high culture’ was introduced. High culture usually associate with the idea of ‘advantaged groups within societies establish and retain social dominance through monopolizing, or “closing,” access to valued resources and opportunities at the expense of other members of the community’ (Benzecry, 2014).   According to Paul DiMaggio, elites produced social closure by using three projects: 1. Entrepreneurship which gives the elites members power and control 2. Classification which defines the boundaries between art and entertainment  3. Framing which devel...

Culture is something that will unite people in the same category and separate people into different categories based on their clothing, languages, lifestyle, preferences in hobbies and other different aspects. High culture and low culture is one of the examples. High culture usually associates with fine arts such as opera, classical music, ballet, classical painting and so on. Meanwhile low culture which is also known as popular culture (pop-culture) is usually appeal to the taste of the masses. According to Herbert Gans, an American sociologist, people select and choose the preferences which is meaningful and make sense to them based on their given resources in income and education. He also stated that 'high and low culture' is just functioned as domination and self-serving for elites to affirm their own standards and to express for other standards. For example, plays are usually associate with the high culture and the elites but historian 'Lawrence Levine shows th...

War is a long term thing that needs a lot of supplies such as food, weapon and especially human resources. A country not only needs people to marches into the war, but also people who work and supply resources to the army. To encourage their citizens to engage themselves in helping the country to win the war, they did some posters which were able to persuade the people. This poster is done by Philip Zec during 1941 for British government to encourage women into war industry to help win the war. A woman is act as the main attraction in this poster and the background has factories and planes. The main title in the poster is 'Women of Britain. Come into the Factories'  The sentence 'Women of Britain, Come into the factories' is straight-forward for viewers to know this is a posters who is asking women to work in the factories in order to help win the war.The woman is act a denotation in this poster and her gesture is giving the viewers a kind of feeling where s...