Marxist Art Understanding

Karl Marx expresses how capitalist society functions, how it was born out of feudalism and how it is related to the historical phases during the production developments of modern society class structure by focusing on the economic and social relations. In terms of economic and social relations, Marx deals with the proletarian struggle which has to work and the bourgeoisie that has the producer resources through ahistorical and materialist perspective by making visible the class struggles behind capitalism. For ‘the theory of alienation’, ‘labour theory of value’ and ‘perception of materialist history’ which are very significant in Marxism are the basic concepts explaining the evolutions focusing on the economy-based relations of human beings from feudal order to the capitalist order and revealing how capitalist societfunctioned. Through these concepts, Marx strengthens people's insights into the material world while transferring epistomological knowledge of the world of capitalism to human being, a social and historical entity. Art is the most effective force of social change and transformation because ideas and concepts depend on people's material activities. It creates an impression of the world from the contradictions of material life. In this study, we tried to draw an intellectual frame on the socio-economic conditions of human life by emphasizing the effective aspect of art. In terms of result achieved, the intellectual activity which characterizes the interest of Art to socio-economic conditions and politic influences is problematized. Together with new art intellection which stems from Marxist essentials, the practical purpose, which is in revolutionary trait of changing the world, is being grounded so as to approve a functionalist art view. From this point of view, the answer for the question what the art is, which is thought to characterize economic, politic, ideological structuring in terms of Marxist point of view, is being determined. Marx grounds the concept of alienation upon a dialectic and materialist philosophy within the borders of socialism which has been potentially found i