'historically ,vanitas subject matter has been repeatedly explored in western

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culture, however,? it has been argued that this would not have been the case if werstern culture had not embraced particularly the Reformations calvinist ideas of original sin,its consequences, and the cristian tradition's concept of the "chosen". In this light of this, in your opinion,how does belief affect's art work?how deep does cultural belief run? does our cultrual past, even if we don't hold the same beliefs as the majority of our forerunners, affect our interpretation of behaviors and events? what about our interpretation of images? do we still interpret images and symbols based on our cultrual past? does cultrual hertiage affect our choice of subject matter when we create?'