Quote:
Originally Posted by ARTelevision
I think I should underscore the notion that once an artist makes a move toward political propaganda, that artist is taking on a heavy burden of responsibility. As I see it, the restraints of social responsibility versus "pure" aesthetic pursuit are somewhat antithetical. Hence, I thought this video and the response to it required the accompaniment of the statements I made above.
|
You have a really warped definiton of propaganda/art. Your definition includes both of these pieces:
<img src="http://www.theotherguy.com/~reid/nazi.jpg">
<br>
<br>
<img src="http://www.theotherguy.com/~reid/picasso.jpg">
The top is a nazi propaganda piece, the bottom is picasso's opinion of the spanish civil war.
Definitions of things as complicated as art, and propaganda do not need harsh boundaries, things get all muddled.