politics in art 2016
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POLITICS
IN ART
Banksy
Politics in art is not propaganda.
The artist doesn't tell us what to think, but raises a question in all its ambiguity, irony, strange beauty, haunting evil -- using evocative color and brilliant sarcasm to enlighten, enrage and empower.
Gesture conveys action.
Color conveys mood.
Light conveys emotion (compassion or drama).
Texture provides a subtext.
Words can provoke or -- spin the meaning with irony.
The Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Bruegel, 1568
Paris bar
Street art in Bethlehem
Street art in Egypt
Street art in London
The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore Gericault is a 23-foot painting done in 1819. It depicts the wreck of the French naval frigate Meduse in which 147 people were set adrift on a hurriedly constructed raft. All but 15 died in the 13 days before their rescue, and those who survived endured starvation, dehydration and cannibalism. The event became an international scandal because its cause was attributed to the incompetence of the French government.
Géricault interviewed two of the survivors and constructed a detailed scale model of the raft.
The painting represents a break from the calm and order of the prevailing Neoclassical school.
Patti Chandler
Ed Keinholz
Barbara Kruger
Banksy Pam Lanza
Deirdre Weinberg
Deirdre Weinberg
Hieronymus Bosch
Last Judgment 9/11G Hirsch
A. Hirsch
A. Hirsch
Weapons of Mass Destruction
A. Hirsch
A. Hirsch
Deirdre Weinberg
Deirdre Weinberg
Charles F. Quest
Marian Kemensky(Slovakian)
Yue Minjun
Yue Minjun – Contemporary Warriors
Do Ho Suh (Korea)
