patriotic art

Flag-waving creative works

Patriotic art is visual work expressing love of country or national pride—paintings of founding fathers, sculptures of war heroes, propaganda posters urging citizens to sacrifice.

The term can be descriptive or dismissive, depending on whether the speaker values such expression or finds it jingoistic: The mural was dismissed as mere patriotic art.

Related

battle hymn · national monuments · political cartoons · propaganda films · epic poetry · war memorials · fallen soldiers · victory parade · wartime posters · monument · mural · national heroes · founding fathers · statue · historical reenactments · heraldry · banner · commemorative stamps

Opposites
political stance toward nation/state

patriotic artprotest art

Creative work challenging authority

subversive art · resistance art · revolutionary art · political satire · Guernica

relationship to dominant culture

patriotic artradical art

Deliberately subversive creative work

punk art · samizdat · degenerate art · avant-garde · outsider art

Family

artistic, patriot, patriotism

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