Lucca on 27 May 2019
| CladInShadows said: Art should be what it is. I don't want people to have to censor their political messages. At the same time, I also don't want artists to HAVE to make a political statement with their art. It should just be what it is. |
An artist making the art they want to make is already a political statement. Their responsibility is to be true to themselves and to what they believe.
Even in movements such as minimal art, where the artists tried to move away from meaning and symbolism, they're being political by negating any meaning. Negating political messages is a political statement, but it's only valid when the artist does that by their own will. When someone enforces to an artist that they can't have political messages, that's just censorship.
