{"id":198,"date":"2012-01-20T21:24:37","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T20:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielboehme.com\/?p=198"},"modified":"2026-01-26T16:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T15:25:58","slug":"art-is-a-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/favorite-quotes\/art-is-a-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"Art is a hammer? Really, Karl Marx?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Karl Marx [\u00a9]<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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'Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it.' (Karl Marx)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Actually, I don't fully agree with Karl. Ok, right... sometimes <\/span>art is abused just to reflect the artist's opinion about a certain thing or to show certain people who behave in a way the artist dislikes how bad they are. Movies are more likely affected by that wagging finger, usually documentaries but also fictional movies. The problem is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

You can't change a bad thing just by pointing at it with a finger (or a camera).<\/strong> You have to show us how to make it better! To know what is bad is a good start at most. We need ALTERNATIVES to change the world! So far so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But do we also need to change the GOOD THINGS??<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well... a hammer can shape; a sickle can cut off... But something should stay the way they are, even need our protection!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think art is a great mirror in many cases. A mirror to reflect the GOOD and BEAUTIFUL THINGS in our world to open our eyes and give us hope!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just my 2 cents.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Photo by Chris Liu-Beers<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a> [\u00a9]<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

What do YOU think?<\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Is art a mirror or a hammer?  Please drop your 2 cents below! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can't change something just by pointing at it with a finger (or a camera). But do we also need to change the GOOD THINGS??<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[16],"post_format":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-favorite-quotes","tag-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielboeh.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_format?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}