Today, artists from diverse cultures communicate their artistic ideas in a global context, while still retaining links to the artistic traditions of their own culture. This multicultural development is due to the rapid advances in technology, communication, and travel, making possible the shared interest from different cultures in multicultural works of art. Artists such as Alan Tucker, who draws from the traditional aboriginal style of art, and Masami Teraoka, who paints in the traditional Japanese art form, use these traditional styles of art, while expressing their artistic ideas in a global context, ensuring people from different cultures can enjoy and understand their work. Other artists though, such as Allan Mitelman, who has a multicultural background, tend to not focus on these issues in their works of art, and focus on other issues when completing a work of art.
Alan Tucker, in his painting, "Racism in football," communicates his artistic ideas in a global context while still retaining links to the artistic traditions of his aboriginal culture. In his painting, Tucker uses acrylic on canvas, for the combination of painting, drawing and written text. The images are cartoon like and "racism in football," and "reconciliation" has been written centrally across the painting in large to stand out. There are also a lot of little groups of text throughout the composition and four large pictures making up the whole. The first of the pictures in the left hand corner showing white men each saying racist remarks to an aboriginal man. In the right hand corner, there is an aboriginal man in the traditional aboriginal markings, playing a didgerydoo, and in the left-hand corner there is a boomerang, and another white man saying a racist remark. Then in the right hand bottom corner there are four aboriginal men wearing sporting uniforms, holding an aboriginal flag with a football in the middle.
