...convey a message. To put the idea of the artist into the head of another. This is why art has been used time and time again to express political, social and humanitarian injustices throughout history. Art, drawing to be exact, was the first way to express the day to day life of another human being. To save the ideas and memories of early man all the way to modern man. Every period of human history since this point has been filled with the carvings, drawings, paintings, writings and musings of humans who have felt betrayed by the government or community that was suppose to be there for them. Every person has a side of the story that they would like to share, art is one of the easiest ways to get a lasting point across. Princess Hijab uses art in this context to express a distaste for modern day ideologies regarding what is beauty when it comes to the human body. “...her dressing up of billboards is a symbolic act of resistance meant to reassert a “physical and mental integrity” against what she calls the “visual terrorism” of advertising.” (Aburawa 30) Blurring the lines between what is acceptable public art, with advertising, and graffiti, with her movement towards depicting real human beauty and modesty. Not taking into account the act itself is illegal she uses a median of in your face guerrilla tactics to point out faults in the mainstream media. “...the headscarf in an agent not of covering but of exposure--of the oppressive nature of the advertising...
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