thank you for sharing about your struggle ❤️🩹 as a small illustrator, it's so heartening to see popular/commercially successful artists reflect on how capitalism shapes all our relationship to art. i hope the artist community would engage in this type of discussion more often – unlearning these attitudes is a long process, but i've learned a lot about art from liberation movements outside of the imperial core. an excerpt from a filipino socialist organization's vision for art:
"In the development of every individual, art – the symbolic expression of thoughts and emotions, works of creative imagination – is a basic necessity. [...] To ensure that art becomes the property of the people, instead of the preserve of a few gifted people and those who can afford these creations, the emergence of popular and accessible forms of art must be encouraged. Cultural groups at the community level must also be organized so that art can be use for the people’s own purposes (i.e. as a means of understanding and recording their own lives and as a way of expressing their own thoughts, feelings and aspirations). [Artists] as a community and people in communities must have full control over art." — BISIG (1987)
thank you for this and for linking the article! i love seeing examples of art or the views of the purpose of art in socialist societies, mainly because it shows that art CAN be when its used for the proletariat and culture and that art is not “dead” (as parroted by some nihilists). the part about curating spaces so that the community can come together and create is something that I think is incredibly important that is barely ever seen in capitalist societies, where everything and everybody is atomized and art is usually created in total isolation. lots to think about on how to further the practice, thank you again!
Happy New Year Dio! I loved reading this and I’m glad you’ve been able to make art on your own terms again and prioritizing health. I’ve been on my own parallel journey this past year and I couldn’t relate more ❤️🩹
Finding joy in art has been such big part of my process this year which I hope to reconcile more this coming year. On that note, I am so psyched to see a comic done by you!
thank you for sharing about your struggle ❤️🩹 as a small illustrator, it's so heartening to see popular/commercially successful artists reflect on how capitalism shapes all our relationship to art. i hope the artist community would engage in this type of discussion more often – unlearning these attitudes is a long process, but i've learned a lot about art from liberation movements outside of the imperial core. an excerpt from a filipino socialist organization's vision for art:
"In the development of every individual, art – the symbolic expression of thoughts and emotions, works of creative imagination – is a basic necessity. [...] To ensure that art becomes the property of the people, instead of the preserve of a few gifted people and those who can afford these creations, the emergence of popular and accessible forms of art must be encouraged. Cultural groups at the community level must also be organized so that art can be use for the people’s own purposes (i.e. as a means of understanding and recording their own lives and as a way of expressing their own thoughts, feelings and aspirations). [Artists] as a community and people in communities must have full control over art." — BISIG (1987)
https://filipinosocialism.wordpress.com/the-socialist-vision/
thank you for this and for linking the article! i love seeing examples of art or the views of the purpose of art in socialist societies, mainly because it shows that art CAN be when its used for the proletariat and culture and that art is not “dead” (as parroted by some nihilists). the part about curating spaces so that the community can come together and create is something that I think is incredibly important that is barely ever seen in capitalist societies, where everything and everybody is atomized and art is usually created in total isolation. lots to think about on how to further the practice, thank you again!
Happy New Year Dio! I loved reading this and I’m glad you’ve been able to make art on your own terms again and prioritizing health. I’ve been on my own parallel journey this past year and I couldn’t relate more ❤️🩹
Finding joy in art has been such big part of my process this year which I hope to reconcile more this coming year. On that note, I am so psyched to see a comic done by you!