page_title: Brexit in popular culture
section_title: Artists' sentiments toward Brexit
hierarchical_section_title: Brexit in popular culture / Artists' sentiments toward Brexit
caption_attribution_description: Afrikaans: Flot in die Düsseldorfse karnavalparade van Februarie 2018, wat 'n persepsie van Brexit promoveer English: Float in the Düsseldorf carnival parade of February 2018, promoting a perception of Brexit
context_page_description: Brexit is the commonly used term for the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020, which resulted from a referendum on 23 June 2016.
context_section_description: The response of artists and writers to Brexit has tended to be negative, reflecting a reported overwhelming percentage of people involved in Britain's creative industries voting against leaving the European Union. The claim by one, the visual artist Bob and Roberta Smith, writing in The Guardian newspaper typifies this response:
  Post-Brexit, we face a dissolution of our museums and galleries comparable in its devastation to that visited on England in the 1530s, as philistine politicians slash budgets. Art schools and the arts in schools will be further diminished in a wave of manufactured disdain for so-called elitists.
caption: Düsseldorf carnival parade in February 2018
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