Grade 10 Art - Day 75: "Artistic Conventions: Satirical Art"

Source: www.polyp.org.uk

Satire is the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. (dictionary.com)

Therefore, satirical artwork holds up and scrutinizes "vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings" (wikipedia).  

Let's go on a virtual tour of 36 pieces of art work that "describe everything wrong with the world today": http://digitalsynopsis.com/inspiration/36-thought-provoking-paintings-pawel-kuczynski/