Social Impacts and Benefits of Arts and Culture

Smrity Bhawna

Both Art & Culture are two wonderful ways of preserving or strengthening a strong community’s sense of place, forging a personal identity, and showing your creativity. Art & Culture boast multiple opportunities for learning, entertainment, leisure, personal growth, and improving communication with others.

In my blog I wish to discuss about the importance and impact of Art & Culture on society & in human life.

Firstly we all should understand how Art & Culture are interrelated. Culture is the characteristics, knowledge of a particular group of people and their way of living. This encompasses food, dress, dance and tradition. Culture is an inherited idea that distinguishes one group of people from another. Every society has different cultures that share languages, traditions and behaviors. Having a different culture gives people an identity that makes them unique and different from other citizens.

Art is an expression or celebration of that particular way of life, in music, performance and visual forms. It is a powerful and entertaining way to get someone else’s perspective on something. It gives hope and it inspires each person.

Art Influences Culture, Culture Influences Art.

Art & Culture play an important role in life. There is a strong relationship between Art & Culture and Education. It improves both personal and academic success, from the beginning of a child’s education through the time of adulthood and career.

Through my blog I would like to bring awareness regarding the Impact of Art & Culture on society and on differently abled people. Once I visited to Dharamshala, I saw a cart full of crafts having Kangra Paintings. Those crafts were handmade by differently abled kids. That cart gets arranged every year by NGOs and the profit from those items are getting utilized for the welfare of NGO and Kids. I met few kids from that NGO and was amazed to see their creativity. As earlier said Art is and expression and through those art piece it was clearly visible that how Special ability or differently able kids are celebrating their way of life. Art speaks through the soul of its culture and this one seems to be the best example.

Differently abled people through painting, craft, song, lyrics, poetry, writing, drama can celebrate their lives and express their feelings. Differently abled arts provide a context in which they can get together, enjoy themselves and think in different ways about issues of common concern. And this creates a culture.

I strongly believe that the culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art. Art is not entertainment. Art is not luxury goods. Art is culture. It is you and Me