Prof. JPaul Manzanilla on people's art

"People's art represents the concerns, ideas and aspirations of the people. I speak of people in broad terms, that of the collective, the majority in any national or social formation. At the risk of being accused of reducing the people in a homogenous category, we must assert that people are those that define the course of history; not the individual but asserting the importance of the individual, not the big men of history but the unnamed and unnameable, the toiling masses that continually assert their existence against their daily erasure in daily life and its representation in art."