Post on 25-Jun-2015
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Social Commentary in ArtPablo Picasso, ‘Guernica’
Francisco Goya, “Execution of Spanish Rebels, May 3rd 1808”
Van Gogh
“The Potato Eaters”
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“The Absinthe Drinker”
Barbara Krueger
Banksy
Keith Haring
‘Unemployed’, stained glass, Roger Gordy
Dorothea Lange, photographer
Kelly Finlaw, digital photography
Mark Jenkins’ disturbing and realistic installations have been known to cause many 911 calls. Using the city as his canvas, Jenkins litters the landscape with sculptures of headless and faceless humans, dead or sleeping bodies, often to provide a social commentary on how homeless people are dehumanized by the masses.
Your work! Topics/ issues: Poverty, Racism, Aids, Smoking, Drugs, Crime, Gangs, Abuse, Child abuse, Family, Violence, Torture, Modern Slavery, Terrorism, Environmental issues, Technology, Relationships………..
Media: photography, comic stories, drawing, painting, collage, installation, Sculpture……………….