The social function of art is something I wonder about. I can't help but feel it's mainly entertainment with a skin of social awareness and the promise of potential change. I appreciate that's a very cynical view, and I would much prefer to believe it's a force for social good, but I struggle to see the evidence.
Thanks for your breakdown of realism in art, I found it enlightening, especially the context of it's development in opposition to romanticism.
The social function of art is something I wonder about. I can't help but feel it's mainly entertainment with a skin of social awareness and the promise of potential change. I appreciate that's a very cynical view, and I would much prefer to believe it's a force for social good, but I struggle to see the evidence.
Thanks for your breakdown of realism in art, I found it enlightening, especially the context of it's development in opposition to romanticism.