https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq Debate prompt 1: How can we use Art to understand and communicate the myriad causes, consequences and complexities of conflict? en-us 2023-10-04 18:05:51 UTC 2023-10-06 17:37:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3a8.png joao_couto26_1 https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq/wish/2734668689 Doris Clare Zinkeisen's artwork of when she visited the Belsen concentration camp right after World War II gives the view of the visitors as they discovered the concentration camp and what they felt as they entered more and more through the roots of the concentration camp. The artwork shows the disturbing scenes of captivity, and the pain and suffering around her. Doris criticizes how WWII was one of the most tragic events in human history affecting individuals, communities, nations, and the whole world, psychologically, socially, politically, and physically. To symbolize the suffering and pain, Doris created the artwork of the tragic event of WWII, skeletal, wasted corpses lying on the ground. Their limbs are spread, and their clothes barely cover their bodies. They lie in a pile against a dark and abstract background. It makes people reflect on how having so much power in the hands of the wrong people can lead to devastating consequences, and creating the painting in a realistic way makes the message more powerful and meaningful to whoever is seeing it. The message of how these people suffered throughout this time, their bellies totally empty shows how they starved to death. This artwork is part of the existentialist belief that says that we are each responsible for creating purpose or meaning in our own lives. Our individual purpose and meaning are not given to us by Gods, governments, teachers, or other authorities, and it explores the problem of human existence. ]]> 2023-10-05 23:42:00 UTC https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq/wish/2734668689 joao_couto26_1 https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq/wish/2734689985 Art just like the ones from Doris will make people reflect on how their choice of who should be the leader of anything matters, because having a lot of power in the hands of someone who is a terrible person will not end up well. ]]> 2023-10-06 00:08:08 UTC https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq/wish/2734689985 joao_couto26_1 https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq/wish/2734693269 Artworks from Doris use a lot of realism that best describes and shows how people were suffering, the pain they were feeling, and the conflits that they had to pass through. ]]> 2023-10-06 00:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq/wish/2734693269 joao_couto26_1 https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq/wish/2734695501 Art can be used to describe the consequences of having extreme conflicts between nations, such as pain and suffering from innocent people. The art that can best describe this is the artwork from Doris, where she painted a pile of skeletal corpses in a concentration camp where they seemed to have starved for death. The way she made the corpses with a lot of realism, the consequences, the pain, and the suffering can become more meaningful. ]]> 2023-10-06 00:14:12 UTC https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq/wish/2734695501 joao_couto26_1 https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq/wish/2735904146 Artwork "One Thing" Demonstrates conceptual art and conceptualism. North Vietnam and South Vietnam is the separation between both countries, and the message of the painting is to stop the war between both countries and have peace between them. The color palette represents the reason why the US military was fighting with North Vietnam, to stop communism, and can also represent blood, and change to let's stop all this war. 
Cleaning the Drapes, people seeing the war, having access to war, but they aren't cleaning it, aren't stopping the war. People who work for the rich are seeing the war, but they are not doing anything to change it. The colors are not vibrant, very dark, black and white. 
Nancy Spero, it's similar to One Thing and Cleaning the Drapes, has 2 main colors black and white, her main idea is to talk about how North and South Vietnam were fighting but the main goal of the soldiers was just to survive and live their lives. She uses different types of art techniques, simple design, and smudged black to show the blood of people and how no one care
Cleaning the Drapes connects to superrealism, people didn't know what was happening in the war, and the curtain covers it. Connects to One thing, Home represents the country. It's called balloons because there are balloons in the background that represent happiness, before the war it was a happy place, after the war, it changed to a disaster, but there is still happiness inside the country. 
All artworks represent two sides, which can be categorized as superrealism, something that is not literal or real but is part of our reality and our daily lives. It makes it stand out, pop art, meaning you will notice more and meaning comes to you. 
A unique way to describe war, a unique way to describe two sides, contradictions. Simple compositions. This is pop art and superrealism. 
Artists used shading to represent a dark tone and sad impression to the viewer. ]]> 2023-10-06 17:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq/wish/2735904146 joao_couto26_1 https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq/wish/2735909450 Guernica, The painting is a lot of nonsense stuff that can represent the chaos that happened in the war. The faces are symbolic and represent pain and suffering. The meaning of bull in the painting is strength and power, representing the strength of people to try to get out of war. Color can help to visualize the suffering because there is white, grey, and black, which can mean suffering. Lots of distorted figures represent the suffering of innocent civilians. This painting goes a lot out of his color palette, but it still follows the cubism pattern. He used black and white because it's a protest art of Guernica, he is trying to represent what he felt and what people felt during the war. 
In The Weeping Women, the part colorful means people hide what they feel about the war, and the black and white shows the real truth about how people felt about the war. 
Bodies on the floor can mean people dying
The weeping Woman's connection with Guernica. There is a woman crying, a connection with the weeping woman. The crying woman represents the mother of children who were lost during the war. 
Guernica the animals can represent how the soldiers were crazy with people. There are journal letters in the painting, and newspaper, misleading the fake information that the war passed. The colors black and white represent and criticize the newspapers. ]]> 2023-10-06 17:10:24 UTC https://padlet.com/joao_couto26_1/unrzuolhpj4k91rq/wish/2735909450