CONTEMPORARY PAINTINGS AS A FORM OF POLITICAL RESISTANCE

Abstract

Artworks created in the modern era often mirror contemporary society's ideological disagreements, social conflicts, and cultural challenges, making them potent tools of political opposition. Modern artists utilise painting as a platform to protest political power, inequality, brutality, oppression, and injustice via the use of symbolic imagery, color, and artistic experimentation. The article delves into the function of art as a form of resistance in modern paintings and analyzes the visual representation of political concerns throughout this time. How modern forms of art depict contemporary social and political themes such as racism, sexism, environmental degradation, migration, state brutality, economic injustice, and human rights breaches.