Propaganda and Contrarianism

[Sarah Demetz]

Of course we all know that governments use art in a way to convey a message or feeling, which we call propaganda. It was interesting to see Manet doing his own response to propaganda, in the small changes he made to the setting and the characters of the execution event (dressing Maximillan as a Mexican, etc.). But when you remember that Manet had a whole history of being a contrarian, mounting his own Salon des Refuses as a statement against the official accepted version of “good” art, it makes a lot more sense. I guess he just liked making his own statements.

Manet must have been difficult to live with, though. 🙂

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