Comparing Ti Watching Hippopotamus Hunt And Race Riot By Andy Warhol

Art is important to our culture, mostly because it is a part of which that makes our culture. It tells our human history and gives us the ideas of what is important to humans in that time period. These arts tell us history, in a similar way to what writing tells us, from oral history. Without many of the artworks that we now have, we would not have a clear look at what all happened.
Some examples of this are Ti Watching a Hippopotamus Hunt and Race Riot by Andy Warhol. These two very different pieces show different historical situations that were happening in that time period. For the Ti mural, we see that people in Ancient Egypt found hippo hunting to either be important or was common to a point that it became an everyday thing that was to be painted. Race Riot shows us something important that happened in our history-- the race riots in the 60s-- and is a flashback to that time period, giving us an almost “live” picture of the event taking place.
Music from decades ago-- like that from The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix and Bach-- show what music types and styles were and still are popular. It also shows how music evolved throughout history, from slave hymns and classical music to blues and jazz to rock and roll and rap. Both paintings and music survive to give visual and verbal stances to add on to the “normal” oral history that historians use to find out what went on in the human historical past (although verbal/musical history is fairly new on the historical scale, when not discussing only the instruments that people used before modern