Humans can be separated from other living organisms by their forms of expression. The arts peak during times of political or societal uncertainty. When the future is unknown, it inspires the generation’s musicians, authors, and poets to express themselves and combat change through intellectual mediums. However, when words fail to invoke the feeling artists want to share with the world, visual art prevails. It allows an artist to speak their mind while leaving their subject matter ambiguous and able to be redefined by its audience. In some cases, it even allows artists to simply speak of a controversial subject present in their community in a way that does not condemn them. Shirin Neshat is an Iranian artist who directs her art towards many subjects of controversial nature, mostly pertaining to the ideological Iran where she found her inspiration to create, and how the recently instilled fundamentalist regime affects women. Neshat’s nonviolent approach to feminism and equality through art speaks not only to the Iranian women she portrays in her work, but to all women.…show more content… She had four siblings, and her parents raised them all in a supportive and progressive Muslim environment. Her father was an advocate for his children to be raised as individuals. He supported their respective goals and personalities, and encouraged them to take risks and forge their own paths through the world. Her father wanted all of his children to have the same opportunities. When it was time for his children to seek higher education, he sent all of them to study abroad in the United States (MacDonald
