Korean Massacre In 1951: The Crossing Of Art And Politics

The painting 2 de Mayo de (1808) is a scene where citizens of Madrid are rebelling against the French soldiers. The image showed a chaos action where people are killing each other. There are lots of tension in the painting, however, by the beautiful color combination and over all composition, Goya lead our eyes around the image creating harmony. Moreover, Goya painted the figures in the image differently; they had a more three-dimension and round looking. Followed by the 2 de Mayo de, He painted El tres de mayo de (1808) where the main action in the painting focus on the emotions in the horror of war. In this painting, Goya successfully expressed rage and fear, and the painting is acknowledged as the first painting in modern era. The white color on the man’s shirt emphasis the focal point and indicates the pure and innocent of a citizen and also showed the brave side of a man who protects others. Goya’s painting had become iconic symbols for the violence of France to the

Most of his creations represent history and society of his time. But “Guernica,” which Picasso painted in response to tragedy and the loss of life, directly related to the Spanish civil-war. “Guernica” was one of the masterpieces created by Picasso, probably the 20th century 's most negative symbol of the horrors. It was a also signal for the terrors of the future. When the Nazi troops dropped a bomb on the Basque village of Guernica in northern Spain, at that time nobody imagined this kind of act in reality. Most

This piece was created during a time of political and social change. Increased political awareness and a focus on celebrity demanded art that was more

As an essential part of culture, art is arguably at the core of culture, which naturally leads to the importance of art censorship in America’s Culture Wars. Also, decision for selecting art works which could own fellowship and funding reflected the conflict in politics between different parties and groups. So, the significance of censorship would be questioned and the standard of choosing some outstanding works to receive funds would be attacked in this American Culture war.

Goya made a series of etchings and paintings depicting the atrocities of both sides involved with the war. The most famous of these paintings are the two depicting the scenes from the second and third of May. The work focuses on the victims of the situation, which in this case are the Spanish citizens being executed. The work is not meant to be beautiful, but is instead supposed to be horrible in order to shock the viewer. Goya's purpose within the painting is less to blame the French, but instead to point out to people the "faceless and mechanical forces of war itself, blindly killing a representative of humanity"(Stokstad). He used the incident as an example of how horrible war is and what can happen when violence is instituted.

Controversial pieces of art are nothing new; artists express their opinions and beliefs in their work, and those who see the artist’s views as problematic speak out against it. Art encourages debate, and debates can be angry and emotion-driven. But when a piece of art is created that is almost universality looked upon as having corrupt morals, the debate tends to switch “I disagree with what this art portrays” to, “this work of art should not be allowed in society, regardless of its quality.”

In The Disasters of War (1810–1820), he showed how brutal the French were in the invasion of Spain. In the early plates of the series, Goya depicted “the dead and injured are carried away, soldiers strip corpses, which are then thrown into a common grave” in the Plate 18 — Bury them and keep quiet (Tomlinson 1994, p.191). This picture wholly described how the war looked in Spain during that time: how people were killed and then buried like it was a normal scenario. The ruthlessness of the French also sent out another message that “beauty is not only destroyed, but grotesquely ravaged to attest the end of any faith in an ideal” (p.193). In the paintings, people lost their dignity, and there are no heroes countless unidentified victims in the picture, which indicate that humanity is only ideal in the Revolution (p.202). The hand gestures in the paintings are in motion, which emphasized the instantaneity of the climax. For example, in the painting, the soldiers’ are holding arms and already stabbing it into the victims. The capture of the particular moment reinforce the brutality of people in that

Pablo Picasso’s painting was painted in 1937, that painting is a highly valuable source towards the investigation of the expression that the society had towards the bombing. This painting was created to show the public what the civilians in the city had to go through during the war. The painting

In northwest Spain, bombs were dropped on Guernica, a small Basque market town by the German air force. This caused the Spanish Civil war from 1936 to 1939. The bombing lasted three and a half hours killing hundreds of people. While in Paris, news of the bombing in his country reached Pablo Picasso and he was devastated. This event became an inspiration to him to paint a huge mural that was called Guernica, and becomes the most memorable anti war image in the twentieth century.

People, places, animals and things are being destroyed because of ruling issues. In Goya's painting to can see hopelessness and suffering on the man's face while begging for his life. Both of the paintings we can feel the senseless violence that was depicted. The violence that took place was recorded and reported in the paintings, both of the artist wanted to make us aware of the violence that took place in their

I chose to my report on Francisco Goya Third of May, 1808. This painting represents the French taking over Spain during the time Napoleon was in reign. This invasion was a two day process but the painting is about what happened on the third of May. “Napoleon chose to invade Spain because he wanted to out his brother, Joseph Bonaparte, in power in Spain to have an alliance with Spain to conquer Portugal” (Zappella, 2014). “The invasion was an ambush as the French told the Spanish they were just passing through, but events soon quickly changed when the intentions became clear” (Zappella, 2014). According to Christine Zappella, “on the third of May Spanish freedom fighters were rounded up and massacred by the French. Their Spanish blood ran through the streets of Madrid” (2014). “The artist was so profound by the evets, he recreated the uprising in his paintings” (Zappelle, 2014). The first painting Goya created was the Second of May, which is Leonardo’s Battle of Anghiari. In this painting he depicts mangled horses and bodies on the streets of France. The second painting he created was the Third of May. This painting

It is true that manipulation theory sometimes finds a special place in its scheme for those rare cultural objects which can be said to have overt political and social content: thus, 60s protest songs, The Salt of the Earth, Clancey Segals novels or Sol Yuricks, chicano murals, and the San Francisco Mime Troop. This is not the place to raise the complicated problem of political art today, except to say that our business as culture critics requires us to raise it, and to rethink what are still essentially 30s categories in some new and more satisfactory contemporary way. (Jameson 139)I initially read this quote as a praise of political art as so worthy an object of study that its complexities could not be fully addressed within the scope of

Emphasizing some of aspects and areas in Picasso’s painting, he uses of dark and pale grey colors. The painting is also divided into two groups, the left side is given to the mockery civilians while on the right side is for a large number of crowd soldiers. Sad to say, that the artwork poses strong reflections are found in the strengths and power between the two said

I plan to answer the following essential question: how can art be used to depict political views? I also hope to address these other questions that follow the essential one: Do “political art” and “propaganda art” mean the same thing? How can I make meaningful art from political perspectives that are not my own? Why do certain political symbols and images spread (the pink “pussy hats”,

The Third May of 1808 was an exceptional Spanish piece that was completed in 1814 and was painted by Francisco Goya. This painting was meant to emphasize the resistance Spain gave to Napoleon’s armies in 1808 during the Peninsular War. Each character and detail of the setting in the painting adds to the horrific losses and struggles some faced during the war. In the painting, there are two groups of men. On the right side, there are the men standing in a line and firing their guns away. The left side shows their captives who are disorganized and have no clue how to escape. This painting has been an inspiration to other paintings created by artists from various parts of the world. For example, Édouard Maneta was inspired to create a new series.