Exploring Societal Issues in Art

Banksy painted "Zehra Dogan" in March 2018 at Houston, and Bowery, New York Cit to show his protest against the imprisonment of Zehra Dongan, a Turkish artist and journalist, and to call for her release. Zehra Dogan was imprisoned for painting "the Kurdish town of Nusaybin, which was partly destroyed during fights between the Turkish army and Kurdish anti-government fighters" (Zehra Dogan, March 2018, 2021). She was sentenced to over two years in jail. Banksy believes that she doesn’t deserve this sentence as she was just expressing herself, which is a basic human right. Thus, he decided to…