"A Paul Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as if he is about to move away from something ... His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet." 1/2
"The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise... The storm propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress." - Walter Benjamin
How Klee’s ‘angel of history’ took flightKlee’s famous angel appears tossed by the rough winds of history – and the drawing itself has been blown about the world by tragic events. Jason Farago tells the story of an icon.www.bbc.com
I also reposted it yesterday because a person with a Benjamin-inspired username called me a philistine for saying all art is political. I was reminded of my first BSky argument: someone came in my mentions saying they were "disappointed" in James Baldwin for a bad review of The Exorcist.
Citizen.Coping"A work of art doesn’t have to depict war, injustice, racial issues or activism to be political. In fact, art that claims to be 'apolitical' is often the most revealing; it reflects what a culture considers safe, acceptable, and worth preserving." All art is political.
