In my opinion "Art" does not have a role in a culture, but plays every role because of the fact that art is ubiquitous. It can be found anywhere within a particular culture; although people have different interpretation of the art. A couple of common roles of art in cultures are symbolism and memory, but if digging deeper into one piece of art it might reveal more than two memories and demonstrate more than one role in a culture. I watched a documentary titles "Waste Land" by a Brazilian artist, Vik Muniz, from which he reunited a very disgustingly dirty community, which is one of the most populated cities in the World and has the world's largest garbage dump. In this documentary Vik did not only demonstrate and challenge the familiar notions of art in this community, but he brought hope back to the people of that community.
Art is like the oxygen that we are constantly breathing in; it's omnipresent, except that it's in different forms, different interpretation and representations.
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