Michael Rosales Professor Anreus Art and Politics 8 December 2014 Art and Politics Take Home Final Event that inspired Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, 1937 was his immediate reaction to the Nazi’s devastating casual bombing practice on the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War. The Guernica portrays the events that occurred in the war and the suffering it inflicts cause upon the innocent especially the civilians. In the painting, we can see what appears to be a person trying to jump
Globalism in Contemporary Art reflects the interconnectedness of the evolving modern world, as it causes the expansion of global perception and understanding of various cultures. Conflict also arises from such interconnectedness as varying cultures and ideas flow into the same medium. Such unity on a global scale creates a conglomeration of the Contemporary Art world resulting in an “identity crisis” Characterised the growing diversity of Contemporary Art spectrum as an “anything goes” mindset.
talgadi, tonyamell etc. Goa Heritage Action Group has organized heritage festivals such as ‘Campal Panjim heritage festival’, heritage festival at the Massano-de-Amorim and five editions of famous ‘Fontainhas festival of the Arts’ where the heritage houses of fontainhas showcased art in the form of paintings in their balcaos, in their drawing rooms, folk dances in the evenings, discussions and lectures. The first fontainhas festival was held in January 2003. Goa Heritage Action Group also brought out
World Literature/Culture Twentieth-Century Art Project Data Sheet Art movement: The art movement is called Latin American Modernism. Time period: The time period is early 20th century. Geographic area: The geographic area is Latin America. Origins and purposes of movement: In the Latin American Modernist movement there were many kinds of artists and mediums. One of the most famous of these artists were muralists. There were many of them in the early 20th century and one of the most famous
Laocoon and His Sons are being attacked by two snakes which represents a form of punishment. Laocoon and His Sons was sculptured by three architects which were, Athenodors of Rhodes, Polydorus of Rhodes and Agesander of Rhodes around the dates of 42 BCE to 20 BCE. Its provenance is Greek sculpture of the Hellenistic Period. The white marble piece can be found at the Vatican Museums in Vatican City. The statues are nearly life – size with heights ranging from 6ft 10in x 5ft 4 in x 3ft 8in. Laocoon
Abstract: The present paper analyses the impact of censorship on creative arts, especially, literature. Censorship of creative arts dates back to Plato who insisted on the ‘exile of poets’. Here is made an attempt to show how today’s ‘Platos’ have been attacking severely some books and other creative arts (for instance, the paintings of M. F. Hussain) for being “Satanic”, “anti-family”, “anti-Hindu”, “anti-Christian” and “anti- Islamic”. Such acts of censorship which is controlled by a small group
townsfolk of distinction were members. He had a taste for the poetic and his use of symbols are secretive hints and glances into the mysterious world that lies behind the painted one. All of those grimacing images depicted in his art, which were customary in medieval decorative art, especially in the stone ornaments of Gothic cathedrals and the wood carvings of choir stalls, were transferred by him to panel paintings. It is understandable that later generations accused him of heresy, the act of not thinking
Introduction “Liberation of the Peon” is an art piece by Diego Rivera. The main subject of this artwork appears to be the tragedies of war. The image depicts four revolutionary soldiers who are seemingly releasing a slave from a stake where has been tied and perhaps left for dead. This appears to be the focal point of the art piece. There are clear beatings on the slave’s body and from the image; it is not easy to tell whether he is alive or dead. At the background of the image is a burning house
“Oath of the Horatii” and “The Third of May” are two very unique pieces of art. Both represent the genre of art history, which was the highest academic genre from that time period. Most of these paintings are extremely large in stature and represents ancient history or contemporary history. All of the events depicted are idealized or fictionalized, they are not supposed to be real life actual representations of what happened. Both of these two pieces show this very well. The subject in both is the
Nowadays fine arts are permeated everywhere in the world. In other words, fine arts have been involved into people’s lives frequently, which they produce economy, vocations, and individual influences. These arguments have been proved recently. I found several sources that could get representative examples, and thoughts which obtain essential inspirations for my research. I mainly used Google Scholar to find articles on my topic. Thus I selected three articles, which are discussed in this bibliography