To claim no art can be apolitical indicates either your field of view of art is massively limited in scope or that you just haven’t experienced enough art.
To claim no art can be apolitical indicates either your field of view of art is massively limited in scope or that you just haven’t experienced enough art.
I'm not claiming that all art has an explicit political position. Just that all art exists in a context that is impossible to perfectly separate from politics.
You could say the same thing about anything. Every single piece of art is about oxygen. The artist had to breathe while creating the art; it's impossible to separate the art from the oxygen that enabled it. All art is oxygenated.
It's a pointless and un-insightful comment to make. Just because you can draw a tenuous connection between a peice of art and politics doesn't make the art about politics, and more than the art is about oxygen.
'Run the Jewels' is objectively political music. 'Pussy Riot' is political music.
The tunes on the LoFi girl channel are as apolitical as it can be. Lounge Jazz? Like...there are so, so many examples.
I seriously got a chuckle from your comment, though - made my day tbh. :)