ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the power of art has two conceptual bases: the function of state art, or the use of visual imagery to promote the situated understandings of cultural proprietorship to residents of spaces claimed by the US political body and, second, a reflection on how individual artists exposed to spaces saturated with myth, use art as a mode to interact with, promote, disregard, or play with the aesthetic notions that have been institutionalized by the cultural arms of the US political body. The physical nature of the cultural artifacts, thus, produces a psychological and physical response, which are forms of stimuli generally associated with the presence of a dangerous entity. The human psyche is structured to respond to different color schemes with certain behaviors. The US political body has appropriated a significant amount of iconography, language, and cultural motifs from conquered peoples, and integrated them as components of the dominant aesthetic.
