Connection of Political Changes and Modernist Art

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The aim of this essay is to discuss the connection of the political changes in the
society and art. The modern art has always been influenced by politics and social changes.
Therefore these is a strong relationship among the art works of the modernist painters and
politics (Miranda & Neumark, 2018). This particular pattern can be seen in the societies of
every nation irrespective of their cultural differences. The social and political changes in the
countries have given birth of controversy which has attracted the attention of the artists
(Nochlin, 2018). Among the modernist painters, Pablo Picasso and Norman Rockwell are two
most important names.
The artists have reflected their political ideologies through their modernist artworks
and reveled different points of view influencing people around the world.
Politics and art of public figure so can go hand in hand. According to you art is never
chased but it is super dangerous. He proved through his art words that it is not merely
aesthetic material but also the vehicle of Representation of society (Hewison, 2015). It is
capable to call out the imperfections of the government and change the society by changing
the perceptions of the people. Picasso in every one of his art works has reflected his courage
to oppose the oppressive fascist and Nazi regimes at that point of time well both of these
political ideology where dominating the politics of Europe . The fiery personality of Picasso
drove him to reflect his beliefs as well as opinion without fear in the authoritarian and
operative police state. His period was super powerful and mindset could be felt when one
sees his 'Guernica'.
The style of his art form is very intriguing because he had gone through different
stages in his career when he used to experiment, adapt thus created various styles (Lampert
2017). Starting from the blue period to the cubist stages this artist had a long period of
struggle to find out his own style of craft. This is quite difficult for the artist to make Fame
for or himself and his artworks to get recognition as well as value. In case of Picasso every

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one of his artworks represented his short thought and opinion about the society clearly. Every
one of this political paintings have been worth more than 1 million dollars and most of them
where famous and well reputed.
Pablo Picasso has always been portrayed as extroverted and a dominating character.
In the case of art he was a serious person having opinion on every perception of politics step
towards the end of the Second World War he was goaded by persons asking on the
relationship of his art and politics (Duran, 2017). He was an artist and at the same time he
was a political being who was constantly alarm to the passionate and pleasing order fire
events taking place in the world. It is not possible for the person like him to be uninterested in
search bordering events and could not detach himself from the life by the virtue of cold
nonchalance. There are different incidents and biographies written on the political view of
Pablo Picasso that set out to explore this artist as a political being. His commitment to the
French political parties specially the Communist Party that he joined in the year 1944 with
great passion and never left. In his course of long life time he had explored every type of
political upheaval starting from the Spanish American War in 1898 and the missile crisis of
Cuba in 1962. Being a political artist, he was well known to bolshevists, anarchists, socialists,
communists, pacifists, fascists, Stalinists and Falangists and he knew them also. He grew up
with monarchism assailed by the Revolutionary anarchism. He grew old with the
republicanism that was served by the Monopoly capitalism (Chavez, 2018). He knew every
sadists, cubists, futurists, supremacists, surrealists, stridentists, constructivists as well as
destructivity.
The devastation of the WWII and Civil War of Spain had affected Picasso so deeply
that his feelings were reflected in his art works. Picasso through his art and selection of
objects or incidents had created symbols of peace and war. His painting ‘dove of peace' has
been the universal symbol of peace against war. Similarly the haunting painting of Guernica