THE+OTHER+GROUP

The Other Group:

Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Armenia & Chile






 * =  ||= **Argentina** ||= **Brazil** ||= **Egypt** ||= **Armenia** ||= **Chile** ||
 * = **Developed** ||= Yes ||= Yes ||= No ||= No ||= Yes ||
 * = **Government Type** ||= Republic ||= Republic ||= Republic ||= Republic ||= Republic ||
 * = **Population** ||= 41,343,201 ||= 201,103,330 ||= 80,471,869 ||= 2,966,802 ||= 14,746,491 ||
 * = **Independence** ||= 1816 ||= 1822 ||= 1922 ||= 1991 ||= 1810 ||
 * = **Literacy Rate** ||= 95% ||= 88.6% ||= 71.4% ||= 99.4% ||= 95.7% ||
 * = **Art Form** ||= Music, Dance ||= Painting, Dance ||= Painting, Sculpting ||= Music ||= Sculpting ||



= **__Comparisons__** = One of the main things that all of our countries had in common was that we all have Republic governments. This was pretty surprising because this is a random group of countries and out of all the types of government systems they all have the same type. The countries literacy rates are all pretty high overall. Egypt is the lowest at 71.4% but that’s still high on a 100% scale. Egypt and Armenia are both not considered “developed” by general standards. All of our other countries have a lot in common as far as art being a part of their education at all. The most known form of art within each of our group’s country’s had more in common with others. Brazil and Egypt shared the common form of painting, and Argentina and Armenia both specialized in traditional music. Egypt and Chile both focused on the art of sculpting.

= **__Differences__** = One of the main things that stand out from our countries is that Egyptian art doesn’t really have a big emphasis on current art rather than ancient artifacts, pyramids, tombs, etc. Armenia’s year of independence was only 20 years ago, so naturally their status as far as arts in their education are very low. They are more concerned with math and science.

Another contrast that our group found necessary to share was the difference between how art produced in each of our countries reflects each one’s culture. For example, in Argentina, artists want to maintain their nation’s Italian and Spanish heritage and carry on the traditions of their rich culture. On the other hand, Brazil embraces the many different cultures present in their society and produces art with afro, hispanic and latin influences. These influences can be seen separately or blended together in Brazilian art work. = **__Surprises__** = As a group, we were all surprised when informing each other about our independent research. Each of the developed countries, including Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, all though all of them are considered “developed the standards of their art education all varies. Despite Brazil’s rich tradition with Carnival and their famous artists, Brazil's arts education in schools is not at the same high level of Chile and Argentina. It also suprised us how lacking Armenia was in art education, since it seems to be an important part of their culture. We also thought that Eygpt would emphasize the arts in school since their paintings and pyramids are famous around the world.





Created By: Julie Zimmermann Tyler Kendle Brian Harvey Allison Seremjian Alex Boone