To define arts and culture all types of creative expression must be considered ranging from individual to collective and also from grassroots to institutional. Auckland Council. (2012). The Roshan Cultural Heritage Institute believes that culture as a word has become enormously confused. The denotation of culture includes the following six fields yet many more do exist; Language which is and the most developed channel of expression and yet also the oldest human institution, Arts & Sciences which is the highest developed and distinguished form of human expression, Thought which deals with peoples perception, interpretation and understanding of the world around them, Spirituality which is communicated through expression and behaviour and is purposed with transmitting values down generation to generation for the well-being of human beings, Social activities within a cultural community exhibited through shared pursuits and in a diversity of festivities and life-celebrating events. Finally Interaction through human contact and other social aspects including the negotiation of socialization, code of behaviour, and gatherings.
Lars Perner, Ph.D. divides culture into specific characteristics; he believes that culture is comprehensive and that all the elements must unite some reasonable way; That culture is something that we learn as opposed to being born with; that it must be displayed contained by confines of ‘appropriate’ behaviour; Conscious awareness of cultural standards is limited; Cultures continuum between motionless and vigorous dependant on how the speed of the acceptance, as in the case of American culture which has changed a massively since the 1950s, however culture of Saudi Arabia has changed much less.
It is difficult to define all the forms of art and culture as there are so many and they are continuously changing but come of the main forms according to Bhuyan, R. include; Visual art (drawing, painting, sculpture, calligraphy