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It is difficult to establish a history for protest art because many variations of it can be found throughout history. While many cases of protest art can be found during the early 1900s, like Picasso's Guernica in 1937, the last thirty years [when?] has experienced a large increase in the number of artists adopting protest art as a style to relay a message to the public.
Since the beginning of Western civilization, plays have been used as a way to protest against social problems and reflect the social and political trends of society. [34] For example, The San Francisco Mime Troupe was created to produce theater that exposes injustices through political satire in the form of plays and musicals. [35]
Throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries, street art has been used as a tool for protest and political expression, playing significant roles in movements such as in Berlin in the 1980s, Civil Rights in the U.S., the protest culture of the 1968 student revolts, and anti-Apartheid activism in South Africa. [1] [2] [3]
Taking center stage at the memorial service for George Floyd, this mural by a group of Minnesota artists is one of the many pieces of art to come out of the movement for racial justice.
For months after George Floyd was killed by police in May 2020, people from around the world traveled to the site of his murder in Minneapolis and left signs, paintings and poems to memorialize ...
The Washington, D.C. Black Lives Matter mural painted in June 2020. On June 5, 2020, during the George Floyd protests, the DC Public Works Department painted the words "Black Lives Matter" in 35-foot-tall (11 m) yellow capital letters on 16th Street NW on the north of Lafayette Square, part of President's Park near the White House, with the assistance of the MuralsDC program of the DC ...
Local artists protest against the war in Gaza outside of Art Basel Miami Beach. Monica Uszerowicz, a local arts writer, artist and protest organizer, said the art world should reckon with its ...
Benny Andrews and others [6] organized the BECC to protest the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s documentary exhibition, “Harlem on My Mind: Cultural Capital of Black America, 1900–68,” [7] that did not include one painting or sculpture by a Harlem-based artist.