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Fine Arts

Diego Rivera created works during the Mexican Revolution that depicted the struggles and aspirations of the Mexican people. His mural, "Creation," was an allegorical composition with varied mythological and religious motifs. During the painting of the mural, Rivera felt compelled to carry a pistol with him to protect himself from right-wing students.

Painting. Drawing. Sculpture. Printmaking.

How have fine artists activated their talents for our common good? What action can you take today?

If you are a fine artist who paints, draws, sculpts or makes prints, here are ways you might harness your creativity and talents to inspire, mobilize and unite people around common causes:

  • Create Symbolic Works: As an artist, you can create pieces that symbolize specific social or political issues, prompting viewers to reflect and take action.

  • Make Public Art or Murals: Public art and murals serve as accessible platforms for artists to reach a wide audience with stories of social struggle and identity or to comment on political and ideological issues.

  • Initiate a Collaboration: Collaborate with other artists on projects to address a common cause, raising awareness and fostering a sense of community.

  • Fabricate an Art Installation: You can create and install an immersive experience that highlights social issues like healthcare, climate change, human rights or social media addiction.

  • Help Raise Funds and Awareness: Donate a work of your art for a charity auction or create a piece specifically to raise funds for a social cause.

Create Symbolic Works

"Statue of a Girl of Peace" is by Korean sculptors Kim Seo-kyung and Kim Eun-sung. The controversial piece represents the "comfort women" that the Japanese military forced into sexual slavery during World War II. There are two dozen of these sculptures in memorial sites around the world. Photo by Amy Lieu.

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Make Public Art or Murals

"Monument Against Fascism," created by Esther Shalev-Gerz and Jochen Gerz, is a public artwork located in Hamburg-Harburg, Germany. Residents engraved their names into the twelve-meter-high lead–clad column during the seven years it took for the tower to intentionally descend into the earth.

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Initiate a Collaboration

“Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40” explored inclusion, exclusion, ownership and rights of access to resources like air, land, water and even culture. The program also considered the arts' role in society as a call to vigilance, a way to bear witness and a potential act of resistance.

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Fabricate an Art Installation

South African artist William Kentridge's multimedia and immersive installation, "More Sweetly Play the Dance," combines film, sound, shadow play and drawings to explore themes of oppression, social injustice, and the plight of those desperate to escape poverty and violence.

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Help Raise Funds and Awareness

At a charity art auction for the Rafał Brzoska Foundation in Poland, Igor Mitoraj’s sculpture “Torso alato" fetched US$1.7 million. The entire art auction generated US$11.5 million. Initiatives to improve the lives of children and youth received the proceeds.

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"The Skin Speaks a Language Not its Own" by Bharti Kher.

In "The Skin Speaks a Language Not its Own," Bharti Kher uses the symbolism of a dying female elephant covered with sperm-shaped bindi as a means to contemplate the effects of popular culture, mass media and consumerism on the culture of India.

Käthe Kollwitz, a German artist, used her work to address social issues such as poverty, war, and the suffering of the working class.
"The Raft of the Medusa" by Théodore Géricault was created in 1818-1819 and is displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris.

"The Raft of the Medusa" by Théodore Géricault was created in 1818-1819 and is displayed at the Louvre Museum in Paris. The oil painting depicts the aftermath of the tragic shipwreck of the French frigate Méduse, a scandal at the time, highlighting the incompetence and negligence of the French government.

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