social protest art …socially conscious paintings were few before the nineteenth century. artists...
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Social Protest Art…socially conscious paintings were few before the nineteenth century. Artists were generally interested in grander themes and besides, political statements didn’t look good hanging on the wall. Some who challenged the status quo appear on the following slides.”
The information on all these slides is taken from the book The Annotated Mona Lisa, by Carol Strickland
Francisco Goya --The Third of May, 1808Goya scathingly denounced man’s follies in paintings like “The Third of May, 1808,” as part of a series entitled The Disasters of War
What time period is this? What was Goya probably responding to?
Honoré Daumier – The Third Class Carriage , 1862
• Here he implies the deadening effect of the Machine Age transportation.
Picasso – Guernica, 1937
• Attacked the destructiveness and cruelty of war (Spanish Civil War)
Anselm Kiefer -
• The artist used fiery imagery to protest the horrors of the Holocaust.