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i maybe too square but i always considered that artistic professions were about lines, points, planes, colour, inks, paints, etc. and their technical and conceptual development.
i cannot help thinking that 'artists' tend to regard their profession as something bigger than it really is. Painters and 'modern artists' tend to consider themselves as intellectuals, feeling the need to "have a message".
why do not write instead? language is a much more powerful (and efficient) way to convey politicial or social ideas.
art schools are not humanities universities - and that's why most of the 'political' things we see in design come out of newspapers and are not the result of any political analysis or result from the activity of the designer in any "social" field. A nd so they look lame and hardly go above name-calling.
i'm not saying that people should not express themselves but not only there are better ways to do it in as much as there is a lot of better prepared people to do it. and they need a job too.