In my opinion there will always be a role for art in revolutions. There are the "fine" arts, and there are communication or "practical / commercial" arts. My interest is primarily in the latter, as I have no wish to be a poor starving artist for the rest of my life.
Communication art is primarily about communication. It is used to sell things, advertise, communication, broadcast. It is obvious that this is probably the primary means used for revolutionary propaganda, just as it would be used for a party political broadcast or an advertisment for the new generation of Apple iPod.
Such communication artists will have undoubtably have had to do an amount of work which they may not ideally wanted to do in order to survive, whether this be design for huge corporations, political parties, revolutionaries (the archetypal unethical "Bad-man") in order to survive. There is undoubtedy the case that some of these artists may have beleived what they were doing, or in the process of subverting the public, were then in turn subverted too.
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