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Culture has a major role in a daily life, it is a fundamental component that always
develops, but it is also a source of identity, innovation, and creativity. A set of spiritual,
material, intellectual and emotional that features in a society or community. An art is
defined as the results from people within the culture that express themselves / ideas /
current event in their life that shows sensitivity and imagination. Art is something that
influences many parts of our lives, art is what drives us to be creative. It took someones
thought to fabricate the masterpiece, and it provides a way for people to explore new
possibilities to notice the world.
Art itself has a large effect on culture, as it can be symbolic of traits, morals, and
religious characteristics. For examples the ancient art in the era of Hinduism it only
includes plants and patterns to represent God because their culture did not allow an
image of God otherwise. Or in the period of Islam kingdoms it was very hard to find a
sculpture, because they believes did not allow to make something that barely look like
living things. The list goes on and on, it is not possible if any art does not reflect a
culture, so of course art has an influences on culture as well, but it does not create it
alone. Art is created in response to culture and vice versa, along with a billion other
factors, such as technology, religion, social structure, economics and the worlds
reaction.
In Indonesia we can see very clear that every arts (including dances, theatre,
handcrafts, musics, etc.) Reflects a culture. For the example, dance in Indonesia reflects
the countrys diversity of ethnicities and cultures, there are more than 700 ethnic groups.
Austronesian roots and Melanesian tribal forms are visible. And influences ranging from
neighboring Asian and even western styles through colonization. Each ethnic group has
their own dances, makes total dances in Indonesia are more than 3000 original dance.
Pisok is one of the traditional dance from North Sulawesi that reflects a local culture, it is
the local name for sparrow also known as Burung Gereja (Church Bird). This bird is
considered holy, the Minahasan people believe that the Pisok Bird always brings good
luck. The Pisok dance is performed by an odd number of girls, because they believes girls
in odd number represents sacredness.
Art also can help us to make a better future, if people in the world making
corporate social responsibility by using the art as a vehicle for positive change only and
not abusing it, there will be a better world for everyone, which is more dynamic and
fulled of peace. The power of culture that has already put into the artwork or masterpiece
will continue to make people understand and make them realize how important is a
culture in the daily life, because no one can imagine how the world is going to be if there
are no culture. And thats why art reflects a culture.