I feel like a lot of people get "All Art is Political" confused with "All Art is made with Political Intentions" which is not the same.
Since I'm getting people on my post going "Um, actually, the choice to make a work apolitical is an act of politics itself", I thought I'd make some degree of an addition.
I understand people who set out to make apolitical work are making a political act by trying and failing to devoid it of politics; however, they, by their own admission, aren't making a work with political intent in their mind.
That is the core of what this post is about, the misunderstanding of "All Art is Political" as everything is made with some degree of political intent instead of it's actual meaning of all work reveals the political climate it is made in whether it is the surrounding politics or the individual creator's politics and what it says about their worldview.
Someone in the notes put it best when comparing it to someone drawing a horse. Someone drawing a single horse isn't going to draw one with political intent, but how they draw the horse reveals their own worldview such as the breed, the style, the location, whether it has horse riding gear or doesn't, etc.
The same goes for politics. People may go into creating something without political intent, or the intention to not make it political, but it doesn't stop the work from reflecting their own political views and general worldview.
