Art under Bad Circumstances
There is something wild and raw about illegal art produced under totalitarian rule. It is art somebody took risks for, not the hothouse-flower risks of exploring private emotions, real risks of fines, prison, torture or death.
This is not nice art that was encouraged, this is the art that happens no matter what those in power want. Power attacks this kind of art and fails and sometimes is defeated outright, sometimes only in spirit. It is like a flower that grows in a crack in a slab of concrete. Sometimes power can hold it back for a while or crush it for a while, but power always fails in the end. The art that can’t be stopped is the human spirit, and it always wins on some level. Always.
This was produced under Ceacescu.
SITO Artchive: ‘No dictotor can shut up the Moon…’ by Dan Iordache
