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"All art is political"
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Someone once said this to me. All art is political. Music, painting, writing - all of it.
I was skeptical. I am not big on politics (I got quite good at avoiding office politics, and while I do vote in elections, I remain doubtful that the people who actually want to do Politics are the right people to run the country. Or the parish council, even).
How can a landscape - some pretty scenery - be political?
Well, he said, just by painting it you are promoting the bucolic ideal.
And your style (he may not have continued, because I don't think he was well versed in art history) echoes that of the Impressionists, who were stating their modernity by moving away from the precision and smoothness of the old masters.
There's an answer to everything.
But let's hear some opinions.
Is all art political even if the maker did not intend it to be so?