Issues based art
Nirmala Dutt Shanmughalingam’s Vietnam (1981), acrylic on canvas work, deals with the American war against Vietnam. This artist utilizes images from the mass media and magazines which are stencilled onto canvases using silk screens. Her work generally has a severe stark style rendered in black and white and employs techniques such as image repetition and structural composition to heighten emotional impact
Issues based art includes work that directly addresses and re-questions social narratives and contexts, national and international political events. From the late 1960s to the present time, some of the most important art produced has been of this genre. While approaches and mediums differ greatly, such works address contemporaneous problems and comment on sociological issues and values of their era.
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- Effect of 13 May 1969
- Pan-Asian inspiration
- A post-modern generation