Response to Christine's blog

Can propagandized posters be considered art?

Yes, I believe that propaganda is considered art. Only this form of art displays, as clearly as the artist can, a message that any audience can retrieve from it. 

In definition, art is described as (in dictionary.com):

  1. the quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

  2. the class of objects subjects to aesthetic criteria; works of art collectively, as paintings, sculptures, or drawings: a museum of art; an art collection.

  3. a field, genre, or category of art: Dance is an art.

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  5. any field using the skills or techniques of art: advertising art; industrial art.

  6. (in printed matter) illustrative or decorative material: Is there any art with the copy for this story?

  7. the principles or methods governing any craft or branch of learning: the art of baking; the art of selling.

  8. the craft of trade using these principles or methods.

  9. skill in conducting any human activity: a master at the art of conversation.

  10. a branch of learning or university study, especially one of the fine arts or the humanities, as music, philosophy, or literature.

Of the 16 definitions the dictionary gives us (total on the website: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/art), propagandized posters fit in at least nine of these descriptions.

This form of art is very different from paintings from. Usually, to make art, the artist must have some sort of reason to make it and propagandized art has a reason to get customers to buy into the product or the statement it is trying to point out.