Art as a Political Statement
Art As a Political Statement
The Futurists and Dada Movements
Erin White
I want to start out this paper by saying that this has been the most difficult paper I’ve ever had to write. Politics do not interest me, and this may be because I’m a romantic artist who prefers to turn away from the violence of wars, or the bickering between government leaders. I would rather just live and experience life, as opposed to dwelling on all that is wrong with the world. I know in my heart that by avoiding politics, I’m putting myself in a bad place, and I do not know much about what is going on in the world around me. I have a really hard time listening to the news, and seeing all the tragedies, while at the same time dealing with my own personal issues, and coping with life in my own world. Sometimes it’s just too much to handle, and so I just ignore it.
While studying modern art, there are two art movements whose existence revolved around politics and more specifically, war. Futurism and Dada simply define what it’s like to really delve into the world of war. These two groups of artists believed in moving far away from the past, and towards a perfect future. They both were considered strongly opposed to normal government views, and were in their own way anarchists. They used art as a means of speaking their mind about their political views, and wanted to reach a wide audience by doing so. Their works were more of a statement of who they were, and their stand on government issues, instead of other art movements of the same time period whose works emphasized expressions of human emotion. The fabric that made these two groups who they were, were based on how strongly they felt towards the ideas of war, and the outcomes from them. There may be a lot of similarities between these two extreme art movements, but more importantly, their overall views were completely opposite of each other. Futurists believed in war, as a means of “cleansing the world of all its past”, and
The Futurists and Dada Movements
Erin White
I want to start out this paper by saying that this has been the most difficult paper I’ve ever had to write. Politics do not interest me, and this may be because I’m a romantic artist who prefers to turn away from the violence of wars, or the bickering between government leaders. I would rather just live and experience life, as opposed to dwelling on all that is wrong with the world. I know in my heart that by avoiding politics, I’m putting myself in a bad place, and I do not know much about what is going on in the world around me. I have a really hard time listening to the news, and seeing all the tragedies, while at the same time dealing with my own personal issues, and coping with life in my own world. Sometimes it’s just too much to handle, and so I just ignore it.
While studying modern art, there are two art movements whose existence revolved around politics and more specifically, war. Futurism and Dada simply define what it’s like to really delve into the world of war. These two groups of artists believed in moving far away from the past, and towards a perfect future. They both were considered strongly opposed to normal government views, and were in their own way anarchists. They used art as a means of speaking their mind about their political views, and wanted to reach a wide audience by doing so. Their works were more of a statement of who they were, and their stand on government issues, instead of other art movements of the same time period whose works emphasized expressions of human emotion. The fabric that made these two groups who they were, were based on how strongly they felt towards the ideas of war, and the outcomes from them. There may be a lot of similarities between these two extreme art movements, but more importantly, their overall views were completely opposite of each other. Futurists believed in war, as a means of “cleansing the world of all its past”, and