Introduction to Western Art
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Darwin Estefan
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The Elements (We Are Making a New World)
By Paul Nash (1918)
Grow up in the era of World War I and having a talent to be a painter, had made him served in the land of war, not only as one of the British army at the Tower of London, but Nash also became an official war artist for the British government in 1917. Interestingly this was the first painting that he completed once he went into the battlefield. He was interested with the nature elements such as fire, air, earth and water, which if we observe from this picture he put all the elements together for example the trees, the water at the bottom of the painting and also the fire that already gone after the
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Imperial War Museum, London, United Kingdom. (Iwmorguk, 2017) In the “We Are Making a New World” paintings, Nash try to describe about the situation, what happened during the World War I, but the title itself show what human did when they were expected to make a better world, but what they do with the nature is not make it any better but destroyed the earth itself. In that painting the artist actually symbolised the death tree as the human in the real life in the middle of a mess environment. Which later on the tree will start to grow again the land will recover as what human will rise again after the mess situation. The sun in here figured as an object that brings the human back to life. Paul Nash also said that he is a messenger who will bring back the message from the army who fighting in the battlefield to the people who want the war to last forever. In here he brought the message by figure it inside his art. After he came back home he had a nervous breakdown, meanwhile this painting become one of the best artwork during the World War and Paul Nash continue with his other landscape painting by using method angular avant-garde styles of Cubism and Vorticism. From his paintings he expressed life through the transformation of the nature. The “We Are Making a New World” painting is exhibited in Imperial War Museum in London in purpose to tell the experience in World War I to the modern …show more content…
Turner threw a lot of stories containing into this painting. Firstly, he was sketches of Victory then added a ship from the Admiralty on to the painted that he was able to combine a number of incidents from different times in the action. As the paintings contain “as many thunderclouds”, where Turner represents the uncontrollability of the ship’s sails in the storm. http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/12057.html Along the right hand side of the paintings, which painted with the ship of French ‘Redoutable’, where it’s currently sinking under the storm after the battle. Through the smoke of battle the hull, sails, cannon and rigging of Nelson’s great flagship Victory loom up in front of us, its sheer scale dwarfing everything below it. In the foreground English sailors rowing around the periphery of the battle to rescue survivors cheer Nelson’s victory. Turner made the paintings against strength, independence and energy he juxtaposes lassitude, subjugation and corruption.
During this time he was living in Lavender bay with a clear view of the Opera House. I see it as a fun, bright picture of the Opera House on a clear evening. The Opera house was a focus of National and International pride and interest and the painting celebrated its elegance. The opera house is special to me because I remember sitting and drawing it on a trip to Sydney when I was about 6 or 7. When we go to Sydney we always visit the Opera House and I sang there in Year 5 as part of a school choir. It has fond memories for me. It appears to me as if the building is made from sails. The only menacing element in the painting for me is the black shark fin which cuts through the white waters. It was an oil painting on a canvas 203x244cm (not a small painting) which Whiteley traded it with QANTAS for a period of free
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A old sandy color bridge is cast upon the middle of the painting, which is crumbling apart and crashing into the water. The water in this painting is dark blue and white showing the choppiness of the water. In the middle of the painting is a white statue with its head broken off, but still standing, holding a black shield leaning forward towards the center of the painting. In the background fire and gray and black smoke cover the landscape. The gray skies linger over the town with a dark depressing tone. While the river banks are roaring with fire. In the lower center of the painting is a woman dressed in white jumping to off the river bank with a warrior behind her. In the lower portion of the painting ships are on fire. Throughout the whole painting you will see thousands of people, some enemy warriors some townspeople. The enemy warriors are wearing red. While the townspeople are dressed in typical daily life clothing
Somehow I related to this painting at the moment. Looking back in the distance in the sky you see that there was a turbulent time. Saturday was such an awful morning. When backing up you see the bottom of the picture. The lush lively flowers show the bright side happy ending. This was my reminder that there is a calm after the storm just like in the picture.
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In 1959, C. Wright Mills released a book entitled ‘The sociological’. Imagination’. It was in this book that he laid out a set of guidelines of how to carry out social analysis of the data. But for a layman, what does the term ‘sociological imagination’ mean? actually mean.
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The New Age movement includes various places in Western Europe and the United States and the study groups were formed by people that wanted to investigate the phenomena. The new age movement was a general sense that was started as a belief in the complex cultic milieu of the 1980’s and beyond. The New Age movement has been widespread in popularity throughout Europe and the United States. The New Age religion is known for its modernized healing practices, spiritual beliefs, and the belief that there is more ways to reach God other than through just Jesus alone.
For years, authors and philosophers have satirized the “perfect” society to incite change. In Brave New World, Aldous Huxley describes a so-called utopian society in which everyone is happy. This society is a “controlled environment where technology has essentially [expunged] suffering” (“Brave New World”). A member of this society never needs to be inconvenienced by emotion, “And if anything should go wrong, there's soma” (Huxley 220). Citizens spend their lives sleeping with as many people as they please, taking soma to dull any unpleasant thoughts that arise, and happily working in the jobs they were conditioned to want. They are genetically altered and conditioned to be averse to socially destructive things, like nature and families. They are trained to enjoy things that are socially beneficial: “'That is the secret of happiness and virtue – liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their inescapable social destiny'” (Huxley 16). Citizens operate more like machinery, and less like humans. Humanity is defined as “the quality of being human” (“Humanity”). To some, humanity refers to the aspects that define a human: love, compassion and emotions. Huxley satirizes humanity by dehumanizing the citizens in the Brave New World society.
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and etchings of George Grosz and Otto Dix, World War I reshaped the notion of what art is, just as it