socially conscious paintings were few before the nineteenth century Artists were generally interested in grander themes and besides political statements didnt look good hanging on the wall Some who challenged the status quo appear on the following slides ID: 395853
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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 StricklandSlide2
Francisco Goya --The Third of May, 1808
Goya 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?Slide3
Honoré Daumier – The Third Class Carriage , 1862
Here he implies the deadening effect of the Machine Age transportation. Slide4
Picasso – Guernica, 1937
Attacked the destructiveness and cruelty of war (Spanish Civil War)Slide5
Anselm Kiefer -
The artist used fiery imagery to protest the horrors of the Holocaust.