When artists have personal opinions about specific issues they can produce powerful, disturbing and intuitive artworks. Artists use many techniques to manipulate viewer’s personal opinions on an issue. Artwork can have a stronger influence on the population over audio cues like speeches as art involves techniques such as colour, the location and many other methods. The article, ‘Influence of Art on American Society’ and the artist Shepard Fairey correspond with this statement through facts and artworks.
The ‘Influence of Art on American Society’ article discusses multiple essays related to influences of art and goes into detail about how techniques used in art influence the society of America. According to the article, there are barriers between …show more content…
A direct representation of this is the quote, “Artists and art writers who use political motives to create and interpret art encourage the audience to make a critical response to social issues”. This article further supports the statement that art effects society by stating, “Art is to bring about social change. By highlighting examples of injustice and oppression they cause people to confront narrow-minded attitudes” (Sullivan, 1994). There is evidence of this in the artworks of Barbra Kruger whos work usually involves black-and-white photographs with overlaid captions set in white-on-red. The phrases she creates usually make a daring statement and commonly applies pronouns such as you, I, your, we and they. She juxtaposes text with imagery that contains criticism of sexism and cultural power structures and her statements question the viewer about classicism, feminism, and consumerism. (Anon, 2007). Her artwork “Untitled [We Don’t Need another Hero]” is a clear representation of social commentary in art and how artworks can influence the viewer into making decisions
The ‘Influence of Art on American Society’ article discusses multiple essays related to influences of art and goes into detail about how techniques used in art influence the society of America. According to the article, there are barriers between …show more content…
A direct representation of this is the quote, “Artists and art writers who use political motives to create and interpret art encourage the audience to make a critical response to social issues”. This article further supports the statement that art effects society by stating, “Art is to bring about social change. By highlighting examples of injustice and oppression they cause people to confront narrow-minded attitudes” (Sullivan, 1994). There is evidence of this in the artworks of Barbra Kruger whos work usually involves black-and-white photographs with overlaid captions set in white-on-red. The phrases she creates usually make a daring statement and commonly applies pronouns such as you, I, your, we and they. She juxtaposes text with imagery that contains criticism of sexism and cultural power structures and her statements question the viewer about classicism, feminism, and consumerism. (Anon, 2007). Her artwork “Untitled [We Don’t Need another Hero]” is a clear representation of social commentary in art and how artworks can influence the viewer into making decisions