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&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8hcqF2kgZV4/TzaR0PGIs3I/AAAAAAAAE9Y/ofYt-dpi8Lc/s1600/Louis+CK+photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8hcqF2kgZV4/TzaR0PGIs3I/AAAAAAAAE9Y/ofYt-dpi8Lc/s320/Louis+CK+photo.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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You may have seen this floating around the internet but I liked it. &amp;nbsp;I normally do not post anything that is not submitted by the
artist creating it – and I normally do not post pieces driven by text. But this
social commentary monologue about gay lifestyle, marriage, and love by comedian
Louis C,K, is something I liked and thought others might find it interesting –and
– of course, proactive.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8591050-2902843638845319167?l=www.socialpoliticalart.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~4/gjD8u0ChiOQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~3/gjD8u0ChiOQ/louis-ck-comedian-social-commentary.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John Robertson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8hcqF2kgZV4/TzaR0PGIs3I/AAAAAAAAE9Y/ofYt-dpi8Lc/s72-c/Louis+CK+photo.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2012/02/louis-ck-comedian-social-commentary.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591050.post-5417427698320881998</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-13T04:00:13.457-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political art social commentary</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political message</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Michael Owens guest artist</category><title>Church and State political artist Michael Owens</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zN8IXG50iXA/TzilslnnOPI/AAAAAAAAE9w/NWh-dvca9oc/s1600/Michael+Owens+Church+and+State.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="208" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zN8IXG50iXA/TzilslnnOPI/AAAAAAAAE9w/NWh-dvca9oc/s320/Michael+Owens+Church+and+State.JPG" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
Church and State&lt;br /&gt;
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Mixed media, collage and&lt;br /&gt;
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This work bemoans the increasingly close relationship between religion and politics in America.&amp;nbsp; It is an example of the kind of contemporary political art that is meant to educate, forewarn and entertain all at once. This is basically a charred American flag with upside down stars. In the normally blue field of stars are found faces of conservative political figures both past and present. Meanwhile, the blatant hypocrisy of the religious right causes the U.S. Capitol building to suffer a lightning strike. The stars on the left side of the flag form an upside down cross in reference to Satanism because I personally believe these people really are evil.&amp;nbsp; Visit Michael Owens website at: &lt;a href="http://michaeloart.com/" target="_blank"&gt;http://michaeloart.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8591050-5417427698320881998?l=www.socialpoliticalart.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~4/t_MXoWocw2Y" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~3/t_MXoWocw2Y/church-and-state-political-artist.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John Robertson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zN8IXG50iXA/TzilslnnOPI/AAAAAAAAE9w/NWh-dvca9oc/s72-c/Michael+Owens+Church+and+State.JPG" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2012/02/church-and-state-political-artist.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591050.post-3392684304718268047</guid><pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-02-09T03:56:00.303-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political art social commentary</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guest artist Thomas Prass</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">thomas-prass political art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political message</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Political image</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">tomas prass</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political art</category><title>T-ERROR political art by German artist thomas-prass</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l5Th0Fb4Wx0/TyXb_8YXOSI/AAAAAAAAE7k/zniCvNzjQ3c/s1600/thomas+prass+T_ERROR.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="211" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-l5Th0Fb4Wx0/TyXb_8YXOSI/AAAAAAAAE7k/zniCvNzjQ3c/s320/thomas+prass+T_ERROR.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
thomas-prass statement:&amp;nbsp; I started the picture calling it "Error" as our social-economical systems on both sides of the Atlantic ocean seem to need a "restart" as things go wrong. But then, looking at the half-finished painting, I liked the idea to put the letter "T" in front of it so it can mean both, "Error" and "Terror". And it is not far to get from a fundamental error to terror as 90% of all wars to me seem to be unnessesary and terror. The Germans have much experience with lost wars and terrible hardship. The USA haven't. But the Americans must not be naive, it can happen quickly and unexpectedly. And that's what we all should try to avoid. We all have so much to loose.&lt;br /&gt;
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You see five members of the German government to the left who look kind of disturbed as if they would expect trouble. Printing money can't be a smart idea in the long run to solve economical problems.&lt;br /&gt;
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The "praying hands" I have taken from the excellent Renaissance artist Albrecht Duerer of Nuremberg, a copperplate engraving. There are many symbols of gambling, and there is the tomato soup can of Andy Warhol. I believe that any one commercial artist trained in graphics could produce such trivial things, it's not really fine art. So such images influence our conscience, and if it's soup cans, it's not really great....&lt;br /&gt;
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There is a part of a dollar printing machine and the building of the Federal Reserve Bank Washington.&amp;nbsp; It's just disturbing, how things develop, and most people just enjoy it, it seems to entertain them&lt;br /&gt;
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﻿About the artist --- German Political Artist Thomas Prass lived in the United States for a few years before returning to his native country of Germany. He studied languages and history of art at Hamburg university. In 2008 he had the idea to produce collages about the real world surrounding as documents of his times. He believes that pictures and art play a crucial role influencing the conscience of people. &lt;br /&gt;
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For more information about Thomas-prass and his art please visit creative.arte:http://creative.arte.tv/de/space/time-critical_art/messages/%C2%A0;Thomas-grass agrees with the private use and distribution of any of his pictures work. However the commercial use of the work needs to be authorized by Thomas-prass You can reach him at: thomas-prass@t-online.de &lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;place w:st="on"&gt;&lt;placename w:st="on"&gt;Michael&lt;/placename&gt; &lt;placename w:st="on"&gt;Home&lt;/placename&gt;&lt;/place&gt; statement about this political art:&amp;nbsp; “Strange Harvest” is a comment on the legacy of war, and particularly the lasting impact that an extremely advanced belligerent can have on a relatively undeveloped country. Unmechanised agriculture is still the basis of survival for vast numbers of people across the planet, and these people are exposed to huge risks in former warzones. As we continue to see in places like Vietnam and Cambodia, unexploded ordinance, residue from chemical weapons and so on still kill, maim and deform on a frightening scale, and these are relics from a war that ended almost forty years ago.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;place w:st="on"&gt;&lt;placename w:st="on"&gt;Visit&lt;/placename&gt; &lt;placename w:st="on"&gt;Michael&lt;/placename&gt; &lt;placename w:st="on"&gt;Home&lt;/placename&gt;&lt;/place&gt;’s blog/we site at: &lt;a href="http://michaelhome.wordpress.com/"&gt;&lt;span style="color: purple;"&gt;http://michaelhome.wordpress.com/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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My 11 year old granddaughter has turned herself into a social/political commentator. She sent me this drawing after watching "Sunday Morning"&lt;br /&gt;
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In case you cannot read the text in the drawing, it says, “I am 11 years old. This is a drawing of my cat. I drew the picture on my new Apple Ipad made by a little girl my age.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Artist&amp;nbsp; Felicia Follum&amp;nbsp;Statement:&amp;nbsp; &lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;"&gt;This work is a part of my &lt;/span&gt;most recent art exhibition titled “Make it Plain.” &lt;a href="http://feliciafollum.blogspot.com/search/label/Make%20it%20Plain"&gt;http://feliciafollum.blogspot.com/search/label/Make%20it%20Plain&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;Make it Plain focuses on African American history and religious culture. &lt;br /&gt;
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1892 (originally titled 230 nooses) consists of 230 nooses. Each representing one of the 230 people lynched in 1892. Using nooses to show the extent of the overwhelming hatred, racism, ignorance, and bigotry that was present (and still is to some extent) in American history and culture started conversations and helped people to understand the significance of learning American history from a variety of viewpoints.&lt;br /&gt;
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This piece morphed into several other works also in the show. You can read more about my artwork from Make it Plain on my art blog. &lt;a href="http://feliciafollum.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://feliciafollum.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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Bio for Felicia Follum: is a a graphic designer and social justice artist. She is currently attending the University of Wyoming and plans to graduate in May. She plans to continue creating art that focuses on social issues. You can contact Felicia Follum via her facebook page or blog for more information about her artwork.&lt;/div&gt;
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THE REAL S.L.A: march 16 ,2011 &lt;br /&gt;
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ARTIST STATEMENT: Collaborative performance with Alexis Milne, Charles Stanton-Jones and Noam Edry: In the most recent null and void exhibition i performed and executed an arrest warrant of patty Hearst . But was unfortunately infiltrated by the celebrity undercover agent mark Kennedy resulting in the infiltrator being cleansed and expelled from the roof.&lt;br /&gt;
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In rise of recent protests and attempted militancy of protesters much could be learned from the recent but forgotten history of ultra left groups. Skewed morality is exposed not only within these groups but also within the authorities wishing to expose them. Sexual and ideological interaction both enforces and destroys the bond within cells and elements that wish to create social change.Whether police or revolutionaries!&lt;br /&gt;
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The chasm between the attempt to create a facade of power and strength totally contradicts their actual ability. Creating a situation that forces individuals or groups to act without debate or any democratic process. Using deceit and lies as there only way to achieve their goals resulting in acts of brutal violence. These processes are exactly mirrored by the state and government!&lt;br /&gt;
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ABOUT THE ARTIST STATEMENT: I am an anarchist artist working in south London. I try to reconcile my hatred of capitalism with my understanding of how to get by in a capitalist society. Having to accept my own hypocritical position being a critic of power structures and rules we are forced to live by and having to live by them.This understanding and complexity i try to take into my artwork work. Personally i openly advocate insurrection and revolution as a tool to liberate humanity while understanding that this statement is totally invalid without detailed explanation.I wish an end to oppression ,exploitation and suffering without knowing how this could be achieved.&lt;br /&gt;
so i use art as a field to explore the power structures that exist and how violence is used by governments and revolutionaries to truly understand the forces that govern our modern world.looking at violence as a force for destabilization and change as well as a force to enforce and maintain power.In my work the physical act is the focus but the psychological response from the audience and the participants is as much a part of the artwork.&lt;br /&gt;
Mixing reality and imaginary, fact and fiction to replicate the way ideology and fundamentalism motivate and justify the acts perpetrated terrorists and politicians!&lt;br /&gt;
facebook &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=740576937"&gt;http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=740576937&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;
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Survival series: The Circle of Tchaikovsky&lt;br /&gt;
Militant camp @ arcadia missa&lt;br /&gt;
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A week long social experimental performance camp. Involving physical and mental training to prepare for the inevitable apocalypse and collapse of capitalism&lt;br /&gt;
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I am looking for participants to be involved in an exhibition in acardia missa in Peckham. I am London based performance artist and require participants and collaborators for my next show. The exhibition focuses around a conceptual 'militant training camp' which will involve physical and mental training building up to the 3 performances at the end of the week. Preparing for 'the inevitable apocalypse and collapse of capitalism'.contact me for more information if you are interested.&lt;br /&gt;
the exhibition takes place march 5th to march 11th&lt;br /&gt;
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David Bloem Artist Statement: &amp;nbsp;"As for my art, I feel pressed to call the logos I've come up with art, as most of the actual images and all the fonts came from just googling what I was looking for, with additional tinkering by me in Photoshop and Illustrator.&lt;br /&gt;
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However, if you consider the logo redesign combined with the rebrand domain, a new medium for expression, then it may be art.&amp;nbsp;All the images were created after I had come up with an original, available, and in my mind, appropriate domain and registered it.&lt;br /&gt;
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I'm sure I'm not the first person to point an undesired domain at others. However it's almost like putting up a &amp;nbsp;sign &amp;nbsp;that only those that know about it can see. So I decided to create a directory of how I feel about certain institutions on the Internet. And so for about the average cost of a can of spray paint, I can use Domain forwarding and masking to make a statement, the whole Internet could see. Keyword:could."&lt;br /&gt;
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LINK BACK TO HOME/FRONT PAGE OF:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/"&gt;http://www.SocialPoliticalArt.com &lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8591050-6104244996873033408?l=www.socialpoliticalart.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~4/pvSi5-3wOgw" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~3/pvSi5-3wOgw/david-bloem-political-art.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John Robertson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-8-6Zv61Z6L0/Tw8RWGR3RZI/AAAAAAAAE5I/1MbMGO_qoek/s72-c/huffnpuffnpost+logo.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2012/01/david-bloem-political-art.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591050.post-5095899556302915637</guid><pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:28:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-19T04:28:00.449-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political art social commentary</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political message</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guest artist Kenneth Neal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political commentary</category><title>Kenneth Neal, A Modern Day Abolitionist  "Know Your Bones", political art</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
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Kenneth Neal’s statement: "Know Your Bones", I will take some labored sections from my personal manifesto: &lt;a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/evil-for-all-time-kenneth-neal/1106860552"&gt;Evil, For All Time&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;nbsp;A chapter entitled "The Thin Line of The Equator":&lt;/div&gt;
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Adaptive Man generated a progressive change as they branched away from the African epicenter and the Equator’s proximity. Developing changes within innate physicality’s and adjustment to diet based on the available ecosystem needed for survival. &lt;/div&gt;
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The progressive human nature has generated necessary changes needed for adaptive purposes within each of our varying regions throughout this planet. Multiple genetic factors and attributable elements must and will be taken into consideration to better understand our common ancestry. To fuse our cultural bonds for the betterment of humankind.&lt;/div&gt;
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Kenneth Neal age, 29, an activist/journalist, scholarship-winning poet and a sci-fi novelist by trade.&lt;/div&gt;
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The premise of this work could be considered the fusion from the likes of Frederick Douglass / Stan Lee / Harvey Milk / Karl Marx. A social journalist doing my part to promote social, cultural, and class destruction awareness with my blog. Detailing critical points within modern Capitalism &amp;amp; Christianity:&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;a href="http://evilforalltime.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://evilforalltime.blogspot.com/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; Facebook, "Ken E-FAT" &lt;/div&gt;
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PhD student at &lt;place w:st="on"&gt;&lt;city w:st="on"&gt;Sheffield Hallam University&lt;/city&gt;, &lt;country-region w:st="on"&gt;UK&lt;/country-region&gt;&lt;/place&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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MA – &lt;city w:st="on"&gt;Coventry&lt;/city&gt; school of art and design, &lt;country-region w:st="on"&gt;&lt;place w:st="on"&gt;UK&lt;/place&gt;&lt;/country-region&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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In Maiada's words: &amp;nbsp;As a woman in a patriarchal society, as an Arab citizen in a Jewish country ….in my&amp;nbsp;videos there are always some forms of resistance to the sexual and social roles played&amp;nbsp;by me as a woman, the roles that I have had to follow through all of my life as a way&amp;nbsp;of transcending the “unkindness” of the real circumstances. Many reasons brought&amp;nbsp;me to deal with the issues of gender and sexuality especially within the female body,&amp;nbsp;viewed as a taboo in the Arab world, so that I could accomplish the things that are&amp;nbsp;forbidden in my family, society, and religion. I have used my body as an actual&amp;nbsp;material to reflect the social and the emotional conflict, trying to break down barriers&amp;nbsp;between art and life. I have tried to create self portraits by breaking and representing&amp;nbsp;my identity in order to make the viewer aware of the structure of seeing and exploring&amp;nbsp;my experience in life, giving him a chance to have a look at my personal world and&amp;nbsp;my own nature.&lt;/div&gt;
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In Maiada's words: &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;By using video performances, I can say what cannot be said/ done, and I can&amp;nbsp;demonstrate against the system. I can represent the body, its weakness, and the&amp;nbsp;body from inside, whether it is “at risk” “opened up” or in pain. That all together is&amp;nbsp;culturally and politically loaded. Elements of endurance and pain are brought to life&amp;nbsp;because of the fact that they are considered as a taboo in the Arab culture, and they&amp;nbsp;are new to the Arab world since we are used to endure on a daily base within the&amp;nbsp;political and social restrictions.&amp;nbsp;While pain cannot be shared, it can affect and can be projected onto others in a&amp;nbsp;way that they can become the site of suffering, while I can be healed. My work&amp;nbsp;in general emphasis on the body in pain, it is considered as endurance art, and&amp;nbsp;it highlights the suffering of the female’s body, (trapped, dislocated, in exile and&amp;nbsp;represented as extremely enduring). All together trying to command the viewer&amp;nbsp;to listen and question the relation between pain and pleasure, and to make him&amp;nbsp;think of the different connotations for men and women, and differences in the&amp;nbsp;way that the male and the female body are perceived.&lt;/div&gt;
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web site: &amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.maiada-aboud.com/"&gt;http://www.maiada-aboud.com/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8591050-3555459367951624691?l=www.socialpoliticalart.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~4/RzTpLUg4vz4" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~3/RzTpLUg4vz4/maiada-aboud-live-performance-political.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John Robertson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rcoXqgotDKE/Tsbo6QLiFtI/AAAAAAAAE1I/B0bQL9G7AlI/s72-c/maida+aboud+image+in+locker.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2012/01/maiada-aboud-live-performance-political.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591050.post-3793943277022798849</guid><pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-12T08:36:43.820-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political message</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Michael D'Antuono</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guest political artist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Michael D'Antuono  political artist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">art political</category><title>Political Artist Michael D'Antuono  “Murder By Media”</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
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Murder By Media&lt;br /&gt;
30” x 54” oil on canvas ©Michael D’Antuono 2009&lt;br /&gt;
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Michael D'Antuono description: “The political environment today is awash in an unprecedented lack of civility. The 24-hour news media (as well as some of our leaders) promote their agendas with a no-holds-bared approach. Disguised as unbiased news sources, they spew deception and promote fear. Their daily hate-mongering and demonization of their opposition demoralizes our society and faith in our government.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Michael D'Antuono quote: “As Picasso once said, "Art is not meant to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense of the enemy. In my case the enemy is hypocrisy, hate mongering, and lies. Through my art I offer an alternative view of social and political issues to help spark a civil public discourse. View some provocative art and express your own thoughts at: http://artandresponse.com/paintings/down-and-outsourced.html”&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8591050-3793943277022798849?l=www.socialpoliticalart.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~4/-MRl_vtrNUM" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~3/-MRl_vtrNUM/political-artist-michael-dantuono.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John Robertson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u0k4xbTdy44/TuVEM_DwFGI/AAAAAAAAE2s/DTsNjyP9jRs/s72-c/D%2527Antuono+murder-by-media.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2012/01/political-artist-michael-dantuono.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591050.post-5250551618055029375</guid><pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 12:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-06T04:50:00.655-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">John Robertson Political art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">artist John Robertson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spiderman</category><title>Art Political Heroes says Oops.  Spiderman</title><description>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9KP8Qa0LReY/RzDgAXcTUtI/AAAAAAAABIo/pZEPz5eNia0/s1600-h/opps-spiderman.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5129846272472339154" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9KP8Qa0LReY/RzDgAXcTUtI/AAAAAAAABIo/pZEPz5eNia0/s320/opps-spiderman.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Some people might wonder what is the political implications is of this painting. I just keep thinking about all the republican candidates who has been thought to be potential heroes of the party. – and, of course oops!!!&lt;br /&gt;
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Spiderman art painting by John Robertson 50" x 70" acrylic/latex on unstretched canvas.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8591050-5250551618055029375?l=www.socialpoliticalart.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~4/c-ln6-uHmEA" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~3/c-ln6-uHmEA/art-political-heroes-says-oops.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John Robertson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9KP8Qa0LReY/RzDgAXcTUtI/AAAAAAAABIo/pZEPz5eNia0/s72-c/opps-spiderman.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2012/01/art-political-heroes-says-oops.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591050.post-7682396118303656010</guid><pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 12:58:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-12T08:40:02.252-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political message</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Peter Rayn</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guest artist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political painting</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guest political artist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">art political</category><title>“Queen of Russia” painting by Peter Rayn Political Art</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j44Nhsx6ed0/TvpNQ_rQJgI/AAAAAAAAE4I/7IC2yfEHHvw/s1600/Queen_of_Russia_by_Peter_Ravn_2011.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j44Nhsx6ed0/TvpNQ_rQJgI/AAAAAAAAE4I/7IC2yfEHHvw/s320/Queen_of_Russia_by_Peter_Ravn_2011.jpg" width="173" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
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Danish artist Peter Ravn painted "Queen of Russia" in Hanoi, Vietnam in November 2011, as part of the Emergency Room Exhibition. "Queen of Russia" was rejected by the censorship committee in Hanoi and not allowed to be displayed. The painting shows Putin in the dress and jewels worn by Empress Maria Feodorovna, former Princess Dagmar of Denmark. If Putin is re-elected in 2012 his presidency can continue until 2024. His reign of Russia will then amount to 24 years, longer than that of many kings and queens. Lately, Russia has passed increasingly homophobic laws and Russians have been demonstrating in the streets against Putin's rule. See also &lt;a href="http://peterravn.com/"&gt;http://peterravn.com/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;
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&amp;nbsp;For questions, contact Peter Ravn: &lt;a href="mailto:mail@peterravn.dk"&gt;mail@peterravn.dk&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;br /&gt;
100 x 55 cm. Acrylic on canvas / Photo by Dorte Krogh.&lt;br /&gt;
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﻿&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8591050-7682396118303656010?l=www.socialpoliticalart.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~4/PsiE0tniI6g" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~3/PsiE0tniI6g/queen-of-russia-painting-by-peter-rayn.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John Robertson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-j44Nhsx6ed0/TvpNQ_rQJgI/AAAAAAAAE4I/7IC2yfEHHvw/s72-c/Queen_of_Russia_by_Peter_Ravn_2011.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2012/01/queen-of-russia-painting-by-peter-rayn.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591050.post-814103374654061124</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2012-01-12T08:41:41.218-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political message</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political commentary</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guest artist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Kenneth Neal</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">commentary</category><title>Kenneth Neal, A Modern Day Abolitionist</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-770rey5vNB4/TvpHrGZnTwI/AAAAAAAAE38/dCvhDnn31bk/s1600/weare99newnew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="230" rea="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-770rey5vNB4/TvpHrGZnTwI/AAAAAAAAE38/dCvhDnn31bk/s320/weare99newnew.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
Kenneth Neal statement - The NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) will punish U.S. citizens. 99% of U.S. citizens are still considered Slave Class. Punishment for the Slave Class in 18th century listed here:&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href="http://soundcloud.com/kenefat/a-modern-day-abolitionist"&gt;http://soundcloud.com/kenefat/a-modern-day-abolitionist&lt;/a&gt; Sad thing is we are standing on the Mirror's Edge of that way of life.&amp;nbsp; Conservatives are easily fooled by shiny objects: the ruse of modern American Patriotism.“If we must fight for our human rights; remember, they are only broken bones. Wounds will heal but deception is forever.”&lt;br /&gt;
Facebook, "Ken E-FAT"&lt;br /&gt;
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http://www.politicalfailblog.com/2011/09/ken-neal-writer.html &lt;br /&gt;
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Small Government &lt;br /&gt;
30" x 40" oil on canvas ©2011 Michael D'Antuono&lt;br /&gt;
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Michael D'Antuono description: “The political environment today is awash in an unprecedented lack of civility. The 24-hour news media (as well as some of our leaders) promote their agendas with a no-holds-bared approach. Disguised as unbiased news sources, they spew deception and promote fear. Their daily hate-mongering and demonization of their opposition demoralizes our society and faith in our government.”&lt;br /&gt;
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Michael D'Antuono quote: “As Picasso once said, "Art is not meant to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense of the enemy. In my case the enemy is hypocrisy, hate mongering, and lies. Through my art I offer an alternative view of social and political issues to help spark a civil public discourse. View some provocative art and express your own thoughts at: http://artandresponse.com/paintings/down-and-outsourced.html&lt;br /&gt;
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Mary Xmas - Look Long Santee the Virgin has Come and Gone&lt;/div&gt;
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She went off with John, who built her a house outside of&amp;nbsp;Ephesus.&lt;br /&gt;
&amp;nbsp;Religious art is 50" x 70" acrylic on unstretched canvas&lt;/div&gt;
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Blind leading the blindater &lt;br /&gt;
Boarding performance, june 16, 2011&lt;br /&gt;
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IN THE WORDS OF THE ARTIST::&amp;nbsp; Blind leading the blind explores morality in relation to class and ideology. The performance took place in a room resembling a derelict clinical space 'a institutional torture room'.A video clip of the royal wedding* was projected on the back wall. Small TV placed on a wheel trolley played a BBC interview with a young gang from Manchester* . Exploring how a mix of threats and actual violence maintains and re-enforces lifestyles from queens to chavs&lt;br /&gt;
* The royal wedding piece was named Ratstar. The name of a squatted social centre in camberwell that was raided by police before the royal wedding and the occupants held in jail for the weekend. The reason the police gave for the raid was searching for stolen goods.There were no stolen goods in the property and no reason to hold those arrested.&lt;br /&gt;
*The TV video a BBC interview features a gang called the benchill mad dogs. One member of this gang 'ryan' was photographed making a gun gesture behind David Cameron. This image made front page news in the UK.&lt;br /&gt;
*The main performance and focus the water boarding performance for me symbolises the ultimate form of institutionalized torture combination of physical and mental torture that leaves no visible damage.&lt;br /&gt;
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ABOUT THE PERFORMANCE ARTIST&amp;nbsp; :I am an anarchist artist working in south London. I try to reconcile my hatred of capitalism with my understanding of how to get by in a capitalist society. Having to accept my own hypocritical position being a critic of power structures and rules we are forced to live by and having to live by them.This understanding and complexity i try to take into my artwork work. Personally i openly advocate insurrection and revolution as a tool to liberate humanity while understanding that this statement is totally invalid without detailed explanation.I wish an end to oppression ,exploitation and suffering without knowing how this could be achieved.&lt;br /&gt;
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so i use art as a field to explore the power structures that exist and how violence is used by governments and revolutionaries to truly understand the forces that govern our modern world.looking at violence as a force for destabilization and change as well as a force to enforce and maintain power.In my work the physical act is the focus but the psychological response from the audience and the participants is as much a part of the artwork.&lt;br /&gt;
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Mixing reality and imaginary, fact and fiction to replicate the way ideology and fundamentalism motivate and justify the acts perpetrated terrorists and politicians!&lt;br /&gt;
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I am looking for participants to be involved in an exhibition in acardia missa in Peckham. I am London based performance artist and require participants and collaborators for my next show. The exhibition focuses around a conceptual 'militant training camp' which will involve physical and mental training building up to the 3 performances at the end of the week. Preparing for 'the inevitable apocalypse and collapse of capitalism'.contact me for more information if you are interested the exhibition takes place march 5th to march 11th&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8591050-866849976921269458?l=www.socialpoliticalart.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~4/bujW3CLCPbI" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~3/bujW3CLCPbI/blind-leading-blindater-video.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John Robertson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://img.youtube.com/vi/G-0Mexxz9t4/default.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2011/12/blind-leading-blindater-video.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591050.post-746238381928273931</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-15T04:00:18.050-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">social commentary</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christmas gretings</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">merry christmas</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">happy holidays</category><title>Happy Holidays Social Commentary</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;
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Reindeer art. Artist John Robertson&lt;br /&gt;
Art is 50" x 70" acrylic on unstretched canvas &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8591050-746238381928273931?l=www.socialpoliticalart.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~4/vfoZS1p6YpQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~3/vfoZS1p6YpQ/happy-holidays-social-commentary.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John Robertson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9KP8Qa0LReY/Sy14o_3eToI/AAAAAAAAEXc/pOii1c7B0rw/s72-c/raindeer+painting+artist+John+Robertson.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2011/12/happy-holidays-social-commentary.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591050.post-3791275927567032899</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-12-12T05:00:02.186-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Michael D'Antuono</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guest artist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guest political artist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">Michael D'Antuono  political artist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">art political</category><title>Political Artist Michael D'Antuono  “Occupying Main Street”</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;
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Michael D'Antuono description: “He needs no crowd, no chant, no sign, for basking in the comfort of his luxurious office he rules Main Street and all the other streets in the land.Far above the maddening throngs of angry Occupy Wall Street protesters revolting against the morally bankrupt super rich, sits our captain of finance ensconced in luxury. Untouched by the discontented masses and untouchable by the governments he and his cohorts control, this heartless monument to selfishness is driven by his bottomless pit of greed. Lacking the restraints of conscience, and government intervention, he lives happily void of contrition for the lives ruined by his machinations”&lt;/div&gt;
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Michael D'Antuono quote: “As Picasso once said, "Art is not meant to decorate rooms. It is an offensive weapon in the defense of the enemy. In my case the enemy is hypocrisy, hate mongering, and lies. Through my art I offer an alternative view of social and political issues to help spark a civil public discourse. View some provocative art and express your own thoughts at: &lt;a href="http://artandresponse.com/paintings/down-and-outsourced.html"&gt;http://artandresponse.com/paintings/down-and-outsourced.html&lt;/a&gt;” &lt;/div&gt;
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Maiada Statement: &amp;nbsp;The performance journey helped me to experience freedom, power and control,&amp;nbsp;emphasising my own autobiographical act as re-enactment of the past. My personal&amp;nbsp;experience and my feminine self realization as a woman artist whose own life was&amp;nbsp;circumscribed by social and historical situations brought art to become the means of&amp;nbsp;survival looking for the ongoing political, social, and intellectual change.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;
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In Maiada's words:&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;My culture views ‘woman’ as a virgin, gentle, innocent, trusting, emotional,&amp;nbsp;accommodating, compassionate, loyal, sensitive, shy, sympathetic, understanding,&amp;nbsp;truthful, devoted, sentimental, dependent, passive, conservative, accepted, traditional,&amp;nbsp;faithful, believable, committed and stable. Somehow, what I was dreaming to be was&amp;nbsp;something totally different. I wanted to be assertive, competitive, dominant, forceful,&amp;nbsp;independent, individualist and strong. Nevertheless, being a woman was problematic&amp;nbsp;for me since the beginning, given the fact that what I had prepared for public display&amp;nbsp;was totally different from what I was expected to be. I wanted to take on no role but&amp;nbsp;my own, to be the author, the subject, activator, and director of my own life. I wanted&amp;nbsp;to speak within the performance conventions, to express my own perceptions, my&amp;nbsp;fantasies and my dreams.&lt;/div&gt;
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Last Christmas my sweetheart gave me some children's toy blocks in which I made this nice assemblage. &amp;nbsp;If you have difficulty reading the blocks on the cross, it says, ""Son, I, I lied to you before but this time I am&amp;nbsp;telling you the truth."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8591050-2671464490406797969?l=www.socialpoliticalart.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~4/tGQRE-i-ugY" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~3/tGQRE-i-ugY/i-lied-to-you-before.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John Robertson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9KP8Qa0LReY/R5pIgJ2I3LI/AAAAAAAAB60/fqaUIaGGrAc/s72-c/son-cross.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2011/12/i-lied-to-you-before.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591050.post-5129930784765273203</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:59:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-28T04:59:00.350-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">guest artist Thomas Prass</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">2011</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political art</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">art political</category><title>2011.01 German Political Artist Thomas Prass</title><description>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--qWbAKscQdI/TrbKC-B2KZI/AAAAAAAAEzw/kecO1aXMVAI/s1600/201101+1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="210" ida="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--qWbAKscQdI/TrbKC-B2KZI/AAAAAAAAEzw/kecO1aXMVAI/s320/201101+1.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;In the words of political artist Thomas Prass -- You see different aspects of our real world in 2011: A jumbo jet which may be loaded with happy tourists, a bridge which had collapsed due to military action, an aircraft carrier silently making his way somewhere, some sayings, of which I really like this most:”Don’t follow the followers”, some modern art which appears rather strange to me: the abstract, excessive architecture of the Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, an inflatable lady with a teddy (Jeff Koons-like), another strange piece of art is the large teddy bear made up of flowers, self-explanatory phrases and a young girl in a nice bikini. Again nature, represented by this girl and the blue sky is present&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;﻿About the artist --- German Political Artist Thomas Prass lived in the &lt;country-region w:st="on"&gt;United States&lt;/country-region&gt; for a few years before returning to his native country of &lt;country-region w:st="on"&gt;&lt;place w:st="on"&gt;Germany&lt;/place&gt;&lt;/country-region&gt;.&amp;nbsp; He studied languages and history of art at &lt;state w:st="on"&gt;&lt;place w:st="on"&gt;Hamburg&lt;/place&gt;&lt;/state&gt; university.&amp;nbsp; In 2008 he had the idea to produce collages about the real world surrounding as documents of his times. He believes that pictures and art play a crucial role influencing the conscience of people. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;For more information about Thomas-prass and his art &amp;nbsp;please visit creative.arte:&lt;a href="http://creative.arte.tv/de/space/time-critical_art/messages/%C2%A0" target="_blank"&gt;http://creative.arte.tv/de/space/time-critical_art/messages/%C2%A0&lt;/a&gt;;Thomas-grass agrees with the private use and distribution of any of his pictures work. However the commercial use of the work needs to be authorized by Thomas-prass&amp;nbsp; You can reach him at: &lt;a href="mailto:thomas-prass@t-online.de"&gt;thomas-prass@t-online.de&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8591050-5129930784765273203?l=www.socialpoliticalart.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~4/jMf_D4UkXN0" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~3/jMf_D4UkXN0/201101-german-political-artist-thomas.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John Robertson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--qWbAKscQdI/TrbKC-B2KZI/AAAAAAAAEzw/kecO1aXMVAI/s72-c/201101+1.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>0</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2011/11/201101-german-political-artist-thomas.html</feedburner:origLink></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8591050.post-8096938484934922709</guid><pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 12:57:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-11-25T04:57:00.038-08:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">assemblage artist John Robertson</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">political art</category><title>Ben Bernanke Chairman of the Federal Reserve portrait</title><description>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9KP8Qa0LReY/SPfALANy6wI/AAAAAAAAC4o/wn747rgMC64/s1600-h/bernanke.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257882385247300354" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9KP8Qa0LReY/SPfALANy6wI/AAAAAAAAC4o/wn747rgMC64/s320/bernanke.jpg" style="cursor: hand; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;This painting of Ben Bernanke by John Robertson &amp;nbsp;is 11" x 14 1/2" acrylic paint on paper. &amp;nbsp;Pitiful in comparison to the last few posts by other political artists.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8591050-8096938484934922709?l=www.socialpoliticalart.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~4/OfDx42Q42aQ" height="1" width="1"/&gt;</description><link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SocialPoliticalArt/~3/OfDx42Q42aQ/ben-bernanke-chairman-of-federal.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (John Robertson)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9KP8Qa0LReY/SPfALANy6wI/AAAAAAAAC4o/wn747rgMC64/s72-c/bernanke.jpg" height="72" width="72" /><thr:total>1</thr:total><feedburner:origLink>http://www.socialpoliticalart.com/2011/11/ben-bernanke-chairman-of-federal.html</feedburner:origLink></item></channel></rss>

