Art and the ruling classes
After reading chapter five of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, I thought we should look at Holbein’s “The Ambassadors” (1533) more closely:
How does this oil painting shape and inform the interests of the ruling classes?
Here’s a 2001 photograph, “Olympia’s Boyz” by Renee Cox. It revises Edouard Manet’s famous oil painting, “Olympia” (1965). How does it shape, inform and critique the notion of the ruling classes?
And here is the oil painting by Manet. How are all of these images political?
Posted: September 3rd, 2012 under Art and Politics.
