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Guernica
1937 oil painting by Pablo Picasso
Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
oil on canvas painting
Guerrillero Heroico
iconic photo of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara by Alberto Korda
agitprop
thumb|right|Agitprop poster by Vladimir Mayakovsky titled: "Want it? Join" "1. You want to overcome cold?2. You want to overcome hunger?3. You want to eat?4. You want to drink?Hasten to join shock brigades of exemplary labor!" Agitprop (; from , portmanteau of agitatsiya, "agitation" and propaganda, "propaganda") refers to an intentional, vigorous promulgation of ideas. The term originated in the Soviet Union where it referred to popular media, such as literature, plays, pamphlets, films, and other art forms, with an explicitly political message in favor of communism.
Guerrilla Girls
feminist art activism group based in the United States
artivism
thumb|Giving to the Poor, a stencil by American street artist Above (artist)|Above addressing the issue of homelessness (Lisbon, Portugal, 2008) Artivism is a portmanteau word combining "art" and "activism", and is sometimes also referred to as social artivism. It may be seen as a modern form of protest art.
Skopje 2014
Macedonian infrastructure and public space remodeling project
Weeping Woman
oil painting by Pablo Picasso painted 1937
The Yes Men
culture jamming activist duo and network of supporters
proletarian literature
literature created by working-class writers mainly for the class-conscious proletariat
Pyramid of Capitalist System
cartoon critique against capitalism
Ars Electronica
Austrian cultural, educational and scientific institute
political fiction
fiction genre
Murals in Northern Ireland
Political wall paintings
Fist Crushing a U.S. Fighter Plane Sculpture
1986 monument in Libya
Vanessa Hafenbrädl
German light artist
Barack Obama "Hope" poster
image of Barack Obama designed by artist Shepard Fairey
feminist art movement
efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to produce art that reflects women's lives and experiences
Anarchism and the arts
association of anarchism with the arts
transmediale
alt=transmediale logo|thumb|transmediale logo Transmediale, stylised as transmediale, is an annual festival for art and digital culture in Berlin, usually held over three to five days at the end of January and the beginning of February. transmediale takes the form of a conference (sometimes called a festival), an exhibition, and a film and video programme that often contain or support performances and workshops. Throughout the year, transmediale is also involved in a number of long- and short-term cooperative projects. From its initial focus on video culture, it came to cultivate an artistic a
Devolved Parliament
2009 oil-on-canvas painting by Banksy
enclosed A
The circle-A or anarchist A, written as Ⓐ, is a graphic and political symbol representing the anarchist movement and ideology. Seeking a symbol that could easily represent the entire movement, it was conceptualized in April 1964 by the Libertarian Youth group of Paris. It was made on the initiative of Tomás Ibáñez, and was graphically represented by René Darras. The symbol initially remained confidential in France for a few years before spreading to Italy, especially to Milan, in 1968. Starting in the early 1970s, the circle-A spread across Italy, France, and then throughout the world.
Pittura infamante
genre of defamatory painting (defaming portrait) and relief, common in Renaissance Italy in city-states in the north and center of the Italian Peninsula during the Trecento, Quattrocento, and Cinquecento
Womanhouse
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Artists United Against Apartheid
band
Tomorrow Girls Troop
feminist art collective
Neoism
Neoism is a parodistic -ism. It refers both to a specific subcultural network of artistic performance and media experimentalists, and, more generally, to a practical underground philosophy. It operates with collectively shared pseudonyms and identities, pranks, paradoxes, plagiarism and fakes, and has created multiple contradicting definitions of itself in order to defy categorization and historization.
protest art
creative works that concern or are produced by activists and social movements
Donald Trump baby balloon
inflatable caricature mocking the US president
Proletarian Film League of Japan
Japanese organization
Humours of an Election
painting series by William Hogarth
monochrom
thumb|right|Monochrom members: Harald Homolka-List, Frank Apunkt Schneider, Anika Kronberger, Günther Friesinger, Evelyn Fürlinger, Roland Gratzer, Franz Ablinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner, Daniel Fabry. Image taken in Lower Austria, April 2012. thumb|Art-theory group Monochrom's office and workspace at Museumsquartier's Quartier21 (December 2018)
Dove
lithograph by Pablo Picasso
Feminist Art Program
art program for women only
The Hunger March
art exhibition
The Dream and Lie of Franco
print by Pablo Picasso