Brisbane Boys' College Library: Year 12: Term 1: Art as Social Commentary

Relevant Artists - 19th and 20th Century

19th Century Artists
Honore Daumier - French painter and printmaker

Edouard Manet - French painter

20th Century Artists
Diego Rivera - Mexican rural painter

Otto Dix - German painter and printmaker

Pablo Picasso - Spanish painter

AR Penck - German painter

Jean-Michel Basquiat - American painter

Barbara Kruger - American multimedia

Nam June Paik - Korean

Heri Dono - Indonesian

Xue Song - Chinese

Cai Guo-Qiang - Chinese

An-My Le - American/Vietnamese

Relevant Artists - 21st Century and Australian

21st Century Artists
Layla Ali

Matthew Barney

Mark Bradford

Ida Applebroog

Kim Soo-Ja

Dadang Christianto

Ivan Sagito

Kamol Phao Savasdi

Montien Boonma

Robyn Kahukiwa

Qin Ga

Xu Tan

Zhang Peili

Australian
Albert Tucker

Noel Counihan

Robert McPherson

Gordon Bennett

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Useful Websites

WikiPaintings
WikiPaintings

General Social Commentary
Think Global School: Power and Persuasion - Art as Social Commentary

New York Public Library: Socially Conscious Art

Social Commentary in Art - Slideshare

The Artist as Social Critic

Social and Historical Frame of Realism

Poster Art as Social Commentary: Toulouse Lautrec, Theophile Steinlen and Leonetto Cappiello

Annenburg Learner: What Makes Art an Effective Form of Social Commentary or Political Criticism?

19th Century French Realism
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Diego Rivera
Museum of Modern Art: Diego Rivera

Barbara Kruger
Smithsonian: Barbara Kruger

Fu Jen University: Barbara Kruger

Museum of Modern Art: Barbara Kruger

Art 21: Barbara Kruger

Ai Wei-Wei
Ai WeiWei's Role as Social Critic Dominates His Media Persona

Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung
Art as a Means of Social Commentary

Useful Books in the Library

Ai Weiwei
Call Number: 709.2 AI
Contents: Interview: Hans Ulrich Obrist in conversation with Ai Weiwei -- Survey: giant provocateur / Karen Smith -- Focus: descending light / Bernard Fibicher -- Artist's choice: Shi dia (era) / Ai Qing -- Artist's writings -- Chronology.
Barbara Kruger
Call Number: 700.92 KRU
Bold, philosophical, radical, subversive: the art of Barbara Kruger focuses on decoding the social-psychological messages embedded in popular culture. Marrying pictures to words in a variety of media and sites, Kruger raises issues of power politics, sexuality, and representation. Borrowing slogans and phrases from the lexicon of thought, and using the potent weapon of pure graphics, Kruger’s art offers up powerfully distilled messages of word and image. This beautifully designed book is the most comprehensive volume on Kruger’s body of work to date. The book explores her work over the past thirty years, including many previously unpublished works. Aptly designed to embody a manifesto-like aesthetic, the book also presents bold spreads of the artist’s large-scale works and public projects, which confront such controversial and weighty topics as abortion, consumerism, spirituality, and identity.

Useful YouTube Videos

Art With a Message - Protest and Propaganda, Satire and Social Comment

Power and Persuasion - Social Commentary in Art

Ai WeiWe
Ai Weiwei in Season 6 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century"

TED: Ai Weiwei detained

Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger

Johannes Phokela
Johannes Phokela: Social Commentary Becomes Fine Art

Referencing Art Pictures

How to do in-text referencing for an art picture