So, this blog focuses on how political parties use art to rally their respective sides. I find this form of propaganda very interesting. Political parties have been using art, political cartoons, commericals,etc to discredit their opponents. They all serve the same purpose, but they are done through a different medium. Most political propaganda conveyed through artwork, is usually about rallying the country and uniting as one...or at least that's what the people who release them claim. These two pictures so how artwork are be used to unify their political base. It shows how far art has come how those in the political sphere are using it to draw more attention to their platform. The first picture is of fmr. VP Dick Cheney with and oil mustache and the phrase 'Got Oil'? written across his forehead. This picture or ad pokes fun at Bush Administration and what many believe to be the real reason for the Iraq War. The second picture plays on the fears of the relations of between Iran and the U.S.A. The top of the picture is adorned with Pres. Barack Obama's famous catch phrase 'Yes, We Can!' I'm sure many of you are comtemplating if this is real art. I think it is. It may not have been painted, sculpted,etc, but it conveys an emotion or thought just like art. This form of art is not really done by artist per say,but it has an agenda just like the art hanging up in your local art museum. It wants the viewer to stop and think or it just might piss you off...nonetheless I think these poster can be consider art and I think that they represent where propaganda through the form of art is going.
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