Poles

Blog – Do you agree with Wright’s theory that artists and politicians stand at opposite poles?

I do not agree that artists and politicians stand at opposite poles. In fact, artists and politicians can have a mutual relationship. For example, this poster of Uncle Sam is an example of the relationship that art and politics can have. And art can assist a political group in rebellion of another political group, such as this picture glorifying the United States in the Revolutionary War. Art can be used for propaganda. Art can be whatever the artist wants to make it. The only way I can imagine art being on the opposite pole of politics is if it portrayed some kind of natural anarchy.