Features of Societal Culture in Modern Painting

Abstract

Culture in all its forms is the integrated fabric or system that contains the manifestations of life in its entirety, as well as its forms of knowledge, arts, beliefs, behaviors and prevailing values, a set of features that distinguish one society from another. Therefore, the concept of culture in its societal boundaries was characterized by keeping pace with all the variables taking place in society or the environment with its political, economic, social and cultural limits, which is a manifestation of civilization and a form of culture and for the early days of the first expression of the culture of peoples, whether in music, art or drama. The importance of this study comes from the fact that it deals with the subject of (features of societal culture in modern painting). Which made him of great importance in influencing the productions of artists, as he helped to study the characteristics of community culture in: 1- Returning to the features of the ancient societal culture and drawing inspiration from its vocabulary in contemporary works of art. 2-Identify the features of culture in European painting. 3-Shedding light on some artists in the field of European painting, whose artworks were associated with their social culture. The current study aims to identify the features of societal culture in modern painting and features of societal culture in modern painting at the period 1888-1937 in Europe.