https://padlet.com/user_4608394fcb76ed927a20d7acf323f272121de4a7_65068_1/jjum5dl5z90k2udv Debate prompt 1: How can we use Art to understand and communicate the myriad causes, consequences and complexities of conflict? en-us 2023-10-06 11:41:25 UTC 2023-10-06 17:32:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3a8.png user_4608394fcb76ed927a20d7acf323f272121de4a7_65068_1 https://padlet.com/user_4608394fcb76ed927a20d7acf323f272121de4a7_65068_1/jjum5dl5z90k2udv/wish/2735460319 Martha Rossler artwork named "Bringing the war back home" is a demonstration of superralist art movement. We can see a superposition of realities, in what seems to be a combination of photojournalism, home design magazine and a vacuum cleaner advertisement. With this artwork, Rosler aimed to criticize the Vietnam war, that produced huge violence in Vietnam while the so called "american way of life" remained intact. It is interesting how photojournalism enters not only as a resource to show the war but also another level of comprehension for this thesis, calling the attention to the fact that the only real contact most of the world had with the war was through the news. The experience with the pain, in that sense, is distant, superficial and temporary, with the ambiguity that, even being distant, it became part of people's lives, entering their homes and routines without altering their chores, household and windows.]]> 2023-10-06 11:41:25 UTC https://padlet.com/user_4608394fcb76ed927a20d7acf323f272121de4a7_65068_1/jjum5dl5z90k2udv/wish/2735460319 user_4608394fcb76ed927a20d7acf323f272121de4a7_65068_1 https://padlet.com/user_4608394fcb76ed927a20d7acf323f272121de4a7_65068_1/jjum5dl5z90k2udv/wish/2735934697 Origin: Doris Clare Zinkeisen

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This piece of art is an oil painting made by  Doris Clare Zinkeisen an artist and nurse during WWII. After the war ended she was one of the people that went to these places to document what was happening there. With that, it is very interesting to analyze her intentions of how she represents each feature in this painting differently, especially the colors. The part that caught my attention the most was the nurses and the people lying on the table. The way the nurses are white in the middle of a lot of darkness and heavy content gives a sense of peace, therefore I wonder if they are people who were already acting on the war or nurses who came from other places to help the ones who were suffering in the war. The way she represents the 'sick' people is also different and impactful, the colors and highlighted bones make me wonder if they are dead or if she is just reinforcing their situation, bringing pain to the art. Therefore, when I see both aspects together (the white/hope and the dark/traumas/post-war) I understand that in the end, people are trying to help. As the title says, it is a human laundry, which also might have some meaning. The laundry is a place where things get cleaned, so if this is a human laundry the people in white might be cleaning the others, either because they are hurt or dirty.]]> 2023-10-06 17:32:02 UTC https://padlet.com/user_4608394fcb76ed927a20d7acf323f272121de4a7_65068_1/jjum5dl5z90k2udv/wish/2735934697