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LESSON 4 · Art vs Power: The Reformation

Art That Bites Back

Great protest art outlives the event that sparked it. The forms keep changing:

  • Murals turn whole neighborhoods into public galleries
  • Street art and graffiti skip the gallery and meet people on the street
  • Performance makes protest physical and hard to ignore
  • Memes are the protest prints of the internet age

Picasso painted Guernica once. The world has reached for that image ever since.