How Bricolage Changed Over Time

1. Over time culture has increased in importance to communities all over the glove, art has evolved and became one of the most important aspects of development, Art surrounds everything, and likewise the term Bricolage has a co-relationship with practices of art. Over time Bricolage has adjusted similar but different meanings. The original definition of this term is the process of fabricating a piece of work with random materials that which are available. Cultural critics and theorist to develop terms allow us as a society to understand what things around us mean, it can also help us understand why most things are organized the way they are. Often used to help society understand how we make sense of our surroundings. Bricolage also refers to …show more content…
‘’Bricolage focuses on youth subcultures as well as to the kind of fashion, music and style statements they are making’’ (Hebdige p.g78). When relating Bricolage to the activity of skateboarding and its culture, many of us over time has taken skate culture and related to other qualities that have nothing or little relation to the activity and in the process have given it meanings that are often not initially meant. Bricolage often intersected with punk and hip-hop culture; often those types of cultures today don’t necessarily have a ‘pretty’ name for them. In fact, they are often known by many as the trouble groups. Relating Bricolage to skateboard, often those youths who practice it are known as punks, those same punks get their name from, meaning that people create of them based on their fashioned choices, example of clothing choices may depend on the youths mood while to the observer may think that the person (youth) is trying to get a point across by their …show more content…
At the metropolitan museum, only three perfect of Artist are women, yet 83 percent of the paintings display nude women. Being now aware of this gender imbalance. Surprised me yet regarding the history of women, this imbalance in the museums change the way I view art history and Art galleries. I find this imbalance unfair, if women’s body are very often appreciated by this male artist enough to be painted for the public why aren’t more women given the opportunity to share their artistic abilities with the public as well. The history of nude women art has been very controversial. Feminist have spoken up regarding the controversy, some stated the fact that paintings over time were for the most part geared toward male viewers, and had simply a lot to do with, the selling of art as it did with social roles and sexual stereotypes of men and women (pallock, G pg123). The point being made by pallock, bring back to the point I was making about equality, history of art hasn’t in my opinion been fair to female artist, through the history of art, nude portraits of women got more popular, reinforced through the world of advisement, still with the same goals, to invite the male spectator. The more information about this unfair imbalance in the art industry the more I question the inequality of these acts.’’ Women, compared to men, have not equally been presented in museums of arts, not as artist but as subjects of work of art’’ (guerrilla girls,