Art For The People's Sake

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Art flows from our daily lives. Art is not only some beautiful painting or sculpture which born to represent beauty somehow; it is an idea which subtly influence our way of thinking. Whether in social or political point of view, Art is undoubtedly revolutionary. In “Position Paper #1 on Revolutionary Art” & “Art for the People’s Sake”by Emory Douglas and“Notes on Funk, I-II.”by Adrian Piper, two types of political tactics are mentioned and they are extremely different in my opinion.
Douglas insists that revolutionary art must be a whole and living part of the people's lives, their daily struggle to survive. In other words, the revolutionary art must express low class people's yearning for their dream, but tend to pay more attention on the

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