Politics in art is not propaganda but rather aims to raise questions and provoke thought using evocative techniques. Artists can convey action through gesture, mood through color, and emotion through light and texture to enlighten, enrage, and empower viewers. Some examples mentioned are The Blind Leading the Blind painting from 1568, street art from various locations, and The Raft of the Medusa painting from 1819 which depicted a shipwreck and became internationally renowned for its political commentary.

1. POLITICS
IN ART
Banksy

2. Politics in art is not propaganda.
The artist doesn't tell us what to think, but raises a question in all its
ambiguity, irony, strange beauty, haunting evil -- using evocative color
and brilliant sarcasm to enlighten, enrage and empower.
Gesture conveys action.
Color conveys mood.
Light conveys emotion (compassion or drama).
Texture provides a subtext.
Words can provoke or -- spin the meaning with irony.

3. The Blind Leading the Blind by Pieter Bruegel, 1568

4. Paris bar

5. Street art in Bethlehem

6. Street art in Egypt

7. Street art in London

10. The Raft of the Medusa by Theodore
Gericault is a 23-foot painting done in
1819. It depicts the wreck of the
French naval frigate Meduse in which
147 people were set adrift on a
hurriedly constructed raft. All but 15
died in the 13 days before their
rescue, and those who survived
endured starvation, dehydration and
cannibalism. The event became an
international scandal because its
cause was attributed to the
incompetence of the French
government.
Géricault interviewed two of the
survivors and constructed a detailed
scale model of the raft.
The painting represents a break from
the calm and order of the prevailing
Neoclassical school.

17. Patti Chandler

19. Ed Keinholz

20. Barbara Kruger

22. BanksyPam Lanza

23. Deirdre Weinberg

24. Deirdre Weinberg

25. Hieronymus
Bosch

26. Last Judgment 9/11
G Hirsch

27. A. Hirsch

28. A. Hirsch

29. Weapons of Mass Destruction
A. Hirsch

30. A. Hirsch

31. Deirdre Weinberg

32. Deirdre Weinberg

39. Charles F. Quest

40. Marian Kemensky
(Slovakian)

41. Yue Minjun

42. Yue Minjun – Contemporary Warriors

43. Do Ho Suh (Korea)