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Reflections on May Day: Resistance in the Visual Arts

Art is a weapon used by the people in their intellectual and practical struggle to achieve their denied rights. Naturally, this art must be purposeful, organized, clear, and expressive—emerging from the ongoing conflict between the exploiting and the exploited forces. Within it lie the distinct characteristics of committed visual art that serves the struggles of...
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Art for All: A Note on Kitsch

We often repeat words of admiration for things that please us and harmonize with our feelings, and we speak about taste in colors and their harmony. However, people’s response to aesthetic concepts does not form a unified or independent sense of taste, but rather a complete fusion that grows and matures within the social environment...
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