Race and War Representations Through Art by Ariel Tandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm By Marta & Ariel en-us 2021-12-01 12:06:12 UTC 2024-05-27 17:16:54 UTC hello@padlet.com arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922622420 This image taken by Carol Guzy documents death, destruction and hope in Haiti 1994. It documents the aftermath of a military coup in haiti where US troops intervened. In the photo, the soldier was trying to protect the man on the ground from a supposed grenade thrown by the mob. In her career, Guzy has won multiple pulitzer prizes for her documentation of conflicts in Haiti, Kosovo and columbia.]]> 2021-12-01 12:25:01 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922622420 Wounded Marines being evacuated during the Battle of Hue in February 1968 arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922622735 This photo taken by John Olson in 1968 shows marines from Charlie company’s third platoon helping unconscious infantrymen onto a tank during the tet offensive. The injured men (private first class Alvin Grantham and James Blaine) were hit by a mortar blast from the opposing Viet cong. This, among many other gruesome images from the Vietnam War, was used to protest American intervention in Vietnam and to save the troops’ life from fighting a war they weren't invited to.]]> 2021-12-01 12:25:15 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922622735 The beautyful ones are not yet born arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922623021 This piece, titled “The beautiful ones are not yet born”, was made by Nigerian artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby. She uses African media such as magazines, newspaper articles and family photos as source material. The title of this piece is a reference to a book written by Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei arman called “the Beautyful ones”. The painting, alongside with the novel, portrays people that helped to support and stand up to the big corruption that lead to the post independence African Politics in the 1960’s.This painting tries to express there is hope for change and equality in the future]]> 2021-12-01 12:25:28 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922623021 Race Riots By Andy Warhol arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922623235 This piece of art represents the Birmingham, Alabama Race riots in 1964, it was made by the famous artist Andy Warhol. In these images we can see how the police and their police dogs are attacking protestors of nonviolent civil rights for black people. Andy Warhol enlarged these photographs taken by Charles Moore and made them an art piece to shock people and point out the violence going on within race in America. He made this piece of art a part of his big collection called ‘Death and Disaster’.


]]> 2021-12-01 12:25:37 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922623235 Civil Rights Movement In America arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922623420 This image represents the Civil Rights Movement in America. This nonviolent movement occurred in the 1950s and 1960s. The purpose of these movements was to achieve social justice and equal rights for black people. These images were taken by Magnum Photographers.]]> 2021-12-01 12:25:45 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922623420 ‘Soldiers and Students’ Art piece arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922623852 This piece of art, ‘Soldiers and Students’ made in 1962 by Jacob Lawrence tries to represent and show the audience school marginalization in the south for black people. One of his most important aspects he is trying to transmit is violence. The artpiece is showing three armed soldiers prohibiting the entrance of various balck students to a school. Jacob Lawrence the artist tries to put the audience in the position of the students who are being discriminated against and are feeling fear and frustration.


]]> 2021-12-01 12:26:03 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922623852 arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922626076 This series of images shows the progression of the assassination of Ngyen Van Lem that happened in 1968 in Ho Chi Minh City. Photojournalist Eddie Adams captures the moment when the bullet enters the head of Nguyen van lem by Brigadier General Nguyen Ngoc Loan. This Image was one of the most controversial images that ever came out of the Vietnam War which was publicized throughout American media in protest of U.S involvement in Vietnam and to show the current state of affairs on the ground in Vietnam. ]]> 2021-12-01 12:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922626076 arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922639521 A photo taken by female photojournalist Lynsey Addario in May 23, 2003 depicting an Iraqi women in 2003 walking through a cloud of smoke that began from a fire from a gas factory caused by Iraqi insurgents to find her husband. This photograph is among many in her 2018 book titled “Of Love & War” that depict scenes from her work in Asia, Africa and the Middle east especially in relation to female representation. ]]> 2021-12-01 12:36:06 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922639521 The Scottish Women’s Hospital: in the cloister of the Abbey at Royaumont. Dr. Frances Ivens Inspecting a French patient arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922639884 Norah Neilson-Grays painting of “The Scottish Women’s Hospital: in the cloister of the Abbey at Royaumont. Dr. Frances Ivens Inspecting a French patient” was made in 1920. This painting is meant to shed light on the importance of the role of women in war, especially of their help in hospitals to treat the wounded men. ]]> 2021-12-01 12:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922639884 Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a dressing-station at Smol, Macedonia arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922641096 Stanley Spencer’s “Travoys Arriving with Wounded at a dressing-station at Smol, Macedonia” was painted in september of 1916 and commissioned by the British War Memorials Committee. It depicts wounded men brought by horses and mules waiting to be treated in a dressing station. The calmness of the painting is because of its religious connotations that Spencer intended, especially with the look of the medical station and the look of the wounded on the stretcher.]]> 2021-12-01 12:37:06 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922641096 Human Laundry arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922641376 Doris Kinkeisen’s “Human Laundry” painted in April 1945 and commissioned by the Red Cross and St John War Organisation depicts the newly freed prisoners of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp being treated by German nurses of any infections or medical conditions that occured because of the horrible conditions of the camps. ]]> 2021-12-01 12:37:19 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922641376 arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922649574 This image shows us a photograph of a group of people who were part of the NAACP, that standed for National Association for the advancement of colored People
1909. It was another of the many movements to demand civil rights for black people. The main goals of the NAACP was to make segregation of all forces disappear, the enforcement of the 14th and 15th amendments and the progress to achieve equality in the education of black and white students.

]]> 2021-12-01 12:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1922649574 " The Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta" by Jean Michel-Basquiat arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1928739443 This piece of art was created in the year 1983. We can see how Basquiat added texts and phrases in this piece as a form of art. The words ‘MISSISSIPPI’ and ‘NEGROES’ are repeated three times each in the piece; these words are said to belong to the oral traditions of Afro-American cultures. This piece of art mainly tries to represent the Afro-American culture and its view to racism.]]> 2021-12-04 13:07:47 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1928739443 South Vietnamese national police chief Brig General Nguyen Ngoc Loan executes a Viet Cong officer with a single pistol shot in the head in Saigon, February 1968 arieltandiarak https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1928844029 2021-12-04 15:24:56 UTC https://padlet.com/arieltandiarak/excdqlpuyxo1acm/wish/1928844029