Summarise the changing role of art and its influences through history:
• recording early life (cavemen)
• communication: gods and stories (Egyptians,
Greeks, Romans)
• 1,000 years of Christianity
• late 1800s breaks apart: new kinds of
painting
• Duchamp’s urinal: 1917, now anything can be
art
• lots of ‘isms’ and experimentation in 20th
Century
• both world wars have impact
• develops into modern or conceptual art
• Art market develops: super rich invest in it, spending millions
• now everything is ‘post modern’, anything can
be art, but can or does everyone feel they can understand it?
