“That art is not about TRUTH!!!”
It’s about PROPAGANDA!!!
prop⋅a⋅gan⋅da
–noun
| 1. | information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc. |
| 2. | the deliberate spreading of such information, rumors, etc. |
| 3. | the particular doctrines or principles propagated by an organization or movement. |
The Medici family used Michelangelo’s David as a symbol of the victory of a cunning mind over brute strength. The statue stood outside the Town Hall in Florence as if to warn enemies and to show their authority over the Florentines.
Propaganda is when people try to convince you something is true. Michelangelo attempted to do this with his sculpture of David. The sculpture represents the defence of civil liberties embodied in the Florentine Republic, a state threatened by other more powerful states and by the domination of the Medici. (A business orientated family with traditions derived from patrons of the arts.)
Art is not about truth it is about more than that, for example it can be about propaganda. This is where art is used by people in power to convince people about things. For example Michelangelo’s David is actually a work of artistic propaganda. It was a statue commissioned by the Medici family to stand outside the Palazzo Della Signoria. The strength and muscle of David symbolises the strength and the hegemony of the Medici family themselves and to show their power among the people of Florence.
· "Art for art's sake" affirmed that art was valuable as art, that artistic pursuits were their own justification and that art did not need moral justification — and indeed, was allowed to be morally subversive.
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· Art qua art… art is art, everything else is everything else.
