I _loved_ Sarah's delivery of that line. So well played! :D

I was expecting Otto Dix at that point, but I guess there's only so much time in a video like this.

yes it is very very bad .. But As you may know America makes tons of money with War ... The Budget of US military is bigger than the 10 biggest army in the world combine ... !!!! And our bridges , school , roads , public transportation , student debts.... etc .. crumble ....... What I mean is our country America is a war machine ... It seems that not too many people are aware of it ????

Aw, shucks. That is so nice to hear. The more and wider pool of voices we have involved in art and art history, the better and more relevant the field will become. Thanks for watching.

The Art Assignment inspired me to change my major from biological sciences to art history!!

What a great teacher. I have several similar moments from my formal education that I remember that clearly, and they make all the less-inspiring bits completely worthwhile.

Yes

The surest sign of success: single-screening! Thanks for watching. And watching so well.

Exactly! Same here! Have to pause and read the subtitles several times maybe

Eu penso nisso também

Eu não conheço mt da cena politica de arte no Brasil atual, teria como vc me indicar alguns nomes ou links, eu agradeceria mt

Totally agree!

i will be happy to know better person like you:)

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Mr.Baggins yes!

Thank you, Oliver! Always enjoy hearing I've made a successful pitch ;).

Hooray! There is so much to write about when it comes to Ai Weiwei. Hope you continue to study his work.

Strongly agree. Disasters of War made me weep.

That was on my list (my very, very long list) at the start, and the process of narrowing this down to 5 artists was nearly impossible. One way I got there was to start after 1900 and stop before 2000. Still, it was nuts and I didn't talk about scads of important political work. Goya is genius.

Indeed! Overall, the 5 artists you've selected are diverse and powerful in their own right. Thoroughly enjoyed this video, and even more so now that I know great care was taken in the compilation process. Keep up the great work, Sarah! I always learn something new after watching a video by you or John.

I saw it I got weak at the knees . My father came from there and witnessed the bombing .

The story behind is often important, Rubens Consequences of War is by now just a part of the story behind.

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hahaha thanks. I guess I should be paying more attention to uploads :]

Upon further inspection, the third piece shown was a banksy piece.

Rebecca Gomperts, who head the organization, got an artxt degree in art before attending medical school, and early funding for Women on Waves was actually provided by the Mondriaan Foundation. The project is a healthcare advocacy group, but its founders have always been interested in the overlapping area between art and activism. While the boat itself is no longer in use, it has been shown in a number of exhibitions. They are committed to their cause and continue to provide healthcare to women in various forms, but they also understand the power of the boat as a symbol and as a way to stir public debate. The presence of the boat from shore was a potent visual reminder of a debate that is often very private.

It's due to the many contexts that go into that art. A landscape painting can be propaganda, it can be made to show the beauty of a country and imply a nationalistic superiority. In another context, it could show the beauty of nature initself, attacked by modern deforestation and industrialization, implying that we should protect the beauty of the natural world. Yarn is less obvious, but in some contexts it could be represent working conditions, the historic perspective of knitting as a female coded activity implying a perspective on gender, etc.

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I thought she had already done one, but yes. I support this!

I do not appear in any other of the "Case for" videos I've made, and I showed up in this one because I was voicing my opinion, sharing what I look for in art. We're all going to want different things from art at different times, and what a shame it would be if we all wanted to same thing or if the world only needed one kind of art.

Thanks for the reply, though I must say I'm confused - I think there might be a communication breakdown. I'll have another go. I was trying to say that it's almost taken as read that we all want to be better, more compassionate people - but maybe the biggest issue facing the world is the fact that anti-compassion, selfishness, and the denial of altruism are the most influential, most powerful philosophies in the West at the moment. _AWOBMOLG_ really illustrates that (see the relationship between Ayn Rand and Alan Greenspan for instance). And given it's style I think it'd probably be recognised as Art, or arty at the very least. *Is it fair to say that underlying all art are ideas of understanding, compassion, and communication? What might be truly iconoclastic would be art which celebrates selfishness.* I'm not advocating these positions, and it's quite likely they are marching us off the edge of a cliff, but I do think they are profoundly important, and should be discussed much more widely, especially in Political Art. To take/make a simplistic example it might be a piece like _House Beautiful_ but instead of the Vietnam War the backdrops are, say, the Prison-Industrial Complex and what David Simon has called the "slow genocide" of the War on [Some] Drugs. However the piece is not condemning this genocide - it is celebrating it. This would be hideously ugly, but it might be a truer representation of what is happening in the world. I think the first four series of _Game of Thrones_ explored these sorts of issues very well - they give a rationale (based on historical precedent), for instance, for Assad's (and Putin's) behaviour in Syria. (I've no idea if this is any better, these thoughts are fairly clear in my mind (which is different from them being right :-)) but maybe I'm not getting them across.) Thanks Again

Money, charity and investments, flow to what's inspiring. Rebuilding for people who have lost their homes is "deserved" and inspiring. People who have never had a home haven't, according to the status quo, done anything to deserve it, a.k.a. inspire investment and trust. So those who have fight to protect what they have, and those who don't use that model as a a template for 'success.' As long as governments keep paying people to make weapons and fight, instead of incentivising de-escalation of conflict, war continues. Check out Yoko Ono's work.