Protest+Art


 * Protest Art**

The way an artist decides to perceived wrongs is a moral question each has to deal with. The degree with which they pursue their response is also a moral one. While some artists work best in groups "The Gueriila Girlz", which may also say they feel the most comfortable or safe some like Keith Haring and banks work alone or their name is held accountable. Some artists may work in a style that is not overtly confrontational like Fritz Scholder One of our greatest Navaho Painters merely depicted single images of Indians. They were large and strong and rooted in "painterly traditions".

But, who was the first, "GUY" to make a statement about a perceived wrong? Daumier with his political cartoons? The French Barbizon School? Its a question worth exploring but not here. Here are images, Some you may disagree with so, we start a conversation. But I believe everyone should make a statement in their own way. William Hogarth

Damiuer Courbet was very much interested in the common man Goya Van Gogh' resume includes preacher. He never lost sight of where he came from or the plight of those around him. Below Kathe Kollwitz



A recent photo R. Crumb's reaction to the recent killings at the French mag. Charlie Hedbo. Crumb has lived in France for 20 years and most likely knew some of the artists that worked at the mag. Picasso's the Weeping Women followed his first overtly political Painting, "Guernica " Another ,"Weeping Women" Frida Kahlo was one of the first Spanish women artists that used her face and body as tools for protest.



Thomas Hart Benton "The Sowers"

It is hard to see Romare Bearden's work as protest but it is as much protest as Van Gogh's. Joan Snyder a painter that dealt with the female attitude and concerns through heavily panted and collaged paintings.

Feminist work More Feminist work

Fritz Schilder

Protest posters from the late 60's



Chinese protest art above and below Very recent political art



Art from The Guerrilla Girls.

Banksy