Тема: Art and culture

Yet, the mutual influence of high art and popular culture is one of the most salient characteristics of contemporary expressive culture .

Along with it, many thinkers, writers, artists, theorists of art of that time in atmosphere of crisis of Culture well felt with them and arts more or have less unanimously come to conclusion about necessity of essential expansion of sphere of...

...everyday life, to popular culture (hence ``pop''), in which ordinary people derived most of their visual pleasure from...
...mass-produced awarded the same significance as the unique; the gulf between ``high art '' and ``low art '' was eroding away.

Over time the Japanese developed the ability to absorb, imitate, and finally assimilate those elements of foreign culture that complemented their aesthetic preferences. The earliest complex art in Japan was produced...

It was a turning point in Russian culture . It was an art of critical realism exposing the contradictions of the society.

Nowadays, it has the status of 'street art ' and you get graffiti in places where you wouldn't expect to - in advertisements, on clothes, on toys, and even on the Wall Street Journal's official website!

The most prominent American artistic style to follow abstract expressionism was the pop art movement that began in the 1950s. Pop art attempted to connect traditional art and popular culture by using images from mass culture .