How and why visual artworks make for effective visual socio-political statements and arguments?

People like to imagine things on how they perceive something that comes to their mind. And most of them like to express through different kind of things. Some are through oral communication, some are expressing themselves through writing that they cannot put their words verbally. And most people expressed their thoughts or experience with the use of their hands through painting. Each person have their own way to express those things to become their way to tell to everyone what is left being said. Like through art works, each artist have their own perception on their works or to their paintings. They are not just imagining things but they are also using their heart through painting. But others perception of art is something that they cannot understand, for others it is just like a paper with color or just a messy drawing that they cannot appreciate. But they didn’t know that art can be something that is unexplainable.

Visual artwork has a big part to the visual of socio political, it is an image or art that is expressing by some artist that is base by their experience or what the artist have picture on their mind from the people makes their painting a story to tell or that can serves a message to all people who are seeing those kind of paintings. That art has something to reveal an ideas to all people. On the ancient times like on how Pablo Picasso did on his art named Guernica it is one of the most famous of his artwork and serves as a powerful political statement which reveal what happened on Spain that there was a World War II occurred in that place. Picasso make that painting to get the attention of the world. He use symbols to interpret things happened that there were innocent people died and etc., Picasso’s artwork had been done a great job to get attention of those people to open their eyes in the truth.

Artwork have been effectively to the visual of socio political statement. It serves the connection to the people and by the artist itself who made the artwork. As what Picasso says that he did not made it, but the people of that present moment made it to be that kind of painting. And by the use of his painting he just wants to tell to everyone that they should not be scared of what happened before, but the painting wants say that he don’t want to happen it again. We all know that at some point we do not appreciate paintings because there are some chaotic painting which we cannot understand what the painting want to confess but if we analyze and try to appreciate things we can see the beautiful side of it. Art is not just an art and it is not just what you see but what you make others see. And being an artist is not one who is inspired, but one who inspires others. While I am making this essay I realized that we should not only know how to appreciate things but we should also know how to respect because we do not know the reality behind of someone else’s lives or the truth of someone else’s work. And I admired those artist because they have a deeper perception in many things and they are the one who sees what others only catch a glimpse of.
By: Haraya Jocson