Race Riot: Political Art Analysis

Political Art

Race Riot

2a.) The traditional roles of an artist that can be applied to evaluate this piece of art are as follows: One, two, three and four because it conveys how the world was back in the day and still now today. For example getting chased by the police and their police dog, it is humiliating and I could just imagine it being no fun. It gives a great impact of emotions because my grandfather was once chase by a police dog because they thought he was involve with the possession of drugs. My grandfather was with the wrong people at the wrong time and locked was locked up for two days scared that he was going to be there forever. The hidden truth is that people get harassed by the cops all the time and sometimes for doing

The painting itself was painted during the Civil Rights movement in 1964 where white prejudice against African American was enforced by the legal system.

3b.) The star on the flag symbolizes a sheriff's badge and the stripes on the flag symbolizes the bars of a jail cell. The white woman is portrayed as a racist who is denying blacks the right to vote.

3c.) The significance of the women in the image represents the white woman is portrayed as a racist who is denying blacks the right to vote. The woman herself is a prisoner of her own bigotry. There’s no way in or out, she just trapped in the madness of her

She wants to change the men in her country’s perspective of women in their country. She wears her veils as symbol of freedom. One of the most visible signs of cultural change in Iran has been the requirement for all women to wear the veil in public. While many Muslim women find this practice empowering and affirmative of their religious identities, the veil has been coded in Western eyes as a sign of Islam’s oppression of women. This opposition is made more clear, perhaps, when one considers the simultaneity of the Islamic Revolution with women’s liberation movements in the U.S. and Europe, both developing throughout the 1970s.”

4b.) Neshats hidden messages are the chador that represents power. The writing on her face is a Farsi poem that expresses deep piety. The guns represent this division between what femininity means in both cultures. This picture embodies a Iranian woman and dismisses misconceptions of her faith.

4c.) The women in the photograph is fighting for women rights, Freedom to express herself without getting judge by the men in her culture. She is fighting