"All of that art-for-art´s-sake stuff is BS,.." - Toni Morrison
Your art is the way you express yourself, and it can also be political. Our work is socio-political. We put into art what bothers our mind.
What bothers our mind is what is happening in our world today; too much war, too much greed, too much cruelty, too much racism, too much..........
We paint to question and not to believe wholesale what we are being told.
We put into pictures what comes into our mind. Events are expressed at random but they represent the basic implication of our work.
The individual painting are made up of words. These words are segmented and filled with colours to create image . The image and the words reinforce each other to give the message that we want to the painting.
"...., Haacke viewed Political art as a rejection of the formalist approach to practice and critism espoused by Greenberg. He stated ' For decades now [Greenberg´s formalist doctrine] has managed to have us believe that art floats ten feet above the ground and has nothing to do with the historical situation out of which it grew....' " (Michael Archer)
And just for info:
"The post-war period saw the New American Painting, which Greenberg wrote about, institutionally supported within the USA and then exported around the globe. During the Cold War the CIA arranged exhibitions across Western Europe of New American Painting, as propaganda to champion American values and ideals. Indeed, Greenberg´s own writing, with its emphasis on progression and refinement, implies a cultural superiority that aided America´s post-war ambitions." (Richard Osborne, Natalie Turner)
"Since that narrative had ended, why not, forgetting about the economic account, simply use painting as a means for self expression? With no narrative to continue, why not expression?" (Arthur C. Danto)
"The postnarrative era offers an immense menu of artistic choices, and in no sense precludes an artist from choosing as many of these as he or she cares to." (Arthur C. Danto)
"A workshop (Hans) Belting led on global art at the ZKM in 2009 proposed paradigm shift; we were held to not think about the West any longer as the single model to be applied worldwide, but to reflect on how to expand this model using experience from elsewhere, or even to approach art from the perspective of a multitude of models. " (Carol Yinghua Lu, Global Studies)