The influence of different forms of art on society varies; whether they are cinematography, fashion, paintings, music, poetry, photography, and so on. Every artist is responsible for helping promote and protect human rights and showing the feelings, movement, and perspective of a certain community that has not been treated accordingly. Moreover, modern art is now one of the biggest vessels used to change societal pressure, expectations, and normative rules. Various artists create pieces within their work to raise awareness, persuade people, and show their perspective and the line they stand on. Without these artists giving their emotional and intellectual thoughts, their supporters or just people passing by would not be able to try and make their own value judgement on what is right and wrong. Furthermore, some are only able to see one side of the story creating a biassed place for minorities. Art plays such a significant role today. In this essay, we will talk about the ways it affects the world and how an artist’s opinion could influence a million others.


Once an artist’s message reaches society, it can heavily influence it if deemed worthy. By shaping their supporters’ mindsets, it creates a larger amount of empathy for those under the effects of undeniable judgement and discrimination. For example, Marina DeBris, one of the biggest fashion activists in the world in this century. Recycling ocean rubbish into luxury-wear, high-end outfits. The designer portrays water and land pollution in beaches with various art forms from fashion to photography. Reusing trash as a means of preventing ocean pollution is part of her work. Marina’s “TRASHION” collection aims to expose wasteful habits grown over the years by society. As it becomes the norm to throw trash around anywhere and everywhere, people start to take advantage, leading to the ever-growing garbage all over the beaches and oceans. Materials from debris are used exactly the way they are found, as they are brought to shore by the ocean. Old materials show the severity of the problem, making individuals uncomfortable to the point that they must act. Using her creative approach, she intends to shock people into confronting the issue. “My inspiration began when I found out about how human actions were destroying other species and the environment and continue to do so even today,” says Marina. Using her talent and skills, she creates a different shedding light to problems that were once swept under the rug. Furthermore, people just assume the world is a garbage disposal. As Marina DeBris started her campaign/collection, it helped with the growing number of supports into recycling and sustainability; shaping a person's mindset and let them have another perspective of the story creating more influence and support into helping save the planet.
Socially normative rules heavily impact our perspectives on the world. Despite millions of acres of land being destroyed, polluted, or wasted, most of society refuses to help or care due to being ignorant over global issues are normal, meaning it is hard to get at least one person to bat an eye. Similarly, to Marina DeBris, Zaria Forman documents and draws the changes of the world each day with pastel paintings/drawings. Gathering inspiration and images through travels around the world, she has flown with NASA over Antarctica, Greenland, and Arctic Canada during Operation IceBridge missions. Her artwork. Collection from the Maldives shows the movement of the sea along with assorted colour schemes on each of them while still having a recurring theme. In addition to her other collections of rising sea levels, Zaria tracked the meltwaters from the Arctic to the Equator. A body of work celebrating and representing a nation that could be entirely underwater within a century was created during her September 2013 stay in the Maldives, the world's smallest and flattest nation. Each drawing shows different perspectives and different problems occurring around the island; some showing broken glaciers, glaciers underwater, rising sea levels, waves drawn in an intimidating manner. Both artists show about pollution and global issues regarding the ideas of the beach and sea. However, while Zaria Forman creates her work displaying the more delicate side and root of the problem, Marina DeBris uses actual waste found on the shores with no filter whatsoever. It highlights the diverse ways each artist can show their perspectives and ideas to their supporters. Every activist artist can influence in hundreds of separate ways where society would have no choice but to listen. Moreover, it creates a huge enough impact so that societal norms change and shift for the better.

To conclude, for a message to reach society, different art forms have been influential and impactful for the greater good. No matter the problem, with artists pushing and advocating for what they think is right for global issues whether it involves racial problems, equality, pollution, climate change, or healthcare, it helps shape a person’s mindset, challenging them to think for themselves rather than following what society does. Gradually, it changes most of the world and how they think for themselves. For example, people who are into fashion or abstract/semi-formal wear, artists like Marina DeBris could heavily impact the community along with finding inspiration creating bigger impact. Just like a branch, with one person advocating and raising awareness on a problem, other people would start doing it too, creating shifts in society. We need these minor shifts in societal norms in hopes that soon enough it will have a big enough influence creating a safer environment along with creating more empathy for each other.