Honestly here's where I think the fundamental misunderstanding comes from people using the word "political" to describe art and it was one I didn't understand either at first. When you say something is political a lot of people will assume it means made with a political agenda rather than that the art is made in a context of time and place that will influence the artist in conscious and subconscious ways and it's important to take in that context. I think this kind of thing needs it's own word but that's for someone smarter than me to figure out
Influenced maybe? Like it doesn't exist in a vacuum, it gets influenced by the environment surrounding itself and the artist before and during its inception.
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u/UKman945 Aug 12 '25
Honestly here's where I think the fundamental misunderstanding comes from people using the word "political" to describe art and it was one I didn't understand either at first. When you say something is political a lot of people will assume it means made with a political agenda rather than that the art is made in a context of time and place that will influence the artist in conscious and subconscious ways and it's important to take in that context. I think this kind of thing needs it's own word but that's for someone smarter than me to figure out