Is All Art Political? Definitely.
Here's what I learnt from China's biggest contemporary artist Ai Weiwei
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I used to struggle with this question of whether all art is political. What about art that doesn't have any obvious political subject matter? What about abstract art? What about the lovely little landscapes of Cornwall that my aunt paints? What’s political about those?
It wasn’t until I really understood the work o…