No. 79: Protest

In Birds passage about protest in art, he talks about artists using the power of their work to argue or make a statement about a certain issue. He mentions that artists must first "see themselves as being in a position to take sides," meaning that they should hold a strong opinion. A lot of protest art started as political critiques and anti-war images. Artists use the power of manipulating narratives to show their side of an issue. Protest art then grew into advertisements, documentaries, and memorial art. 

I think art is an effective and compelling way to speak one's voice because it is a universal language. It would be interesting to make a protest cartoon about something other than politics (i.e. society's pressure on women regarding body image). It would also be neat to make protest posters against budget cuts for the art departments in schools. Finally, protest art could be used to communicate generation gaps between a child and parent.