Membaca Seni Semsar Siahaan sebagai Seni Rupa Pembebasan

Abstract

Art is not fully autonomous. Art always has a reciprocal relationship with other social institutions, especially economics and politics. This connection is related to the responsibility of the arts in the face of a classy society, where the ruling class who controls the capital / means of production carry out oppression and exploitation in a structured and systematic manner. This journal is focused on the study of populist art which is echoed again by Semsar Siahaan with the term Art of Liberation after the 1965 national tragedy. Through a descriptive and historical explanatory approach, it is examined how the context of Semsar Siahaan's Liberation Arts and artistic struggles.