Task 2 Option 1 Write an essay of 1000 words in response to the following questions: - In what way can Picasso’s Guernica be seen as a form of protest? - Is it continuing to fulfil this purpose today? Picasso painted Guernica in response to the bombing of the Basque town, Guernica in 1927 during the Spanish Civil War. The essay will discuss why the painting can be perceived as a protest against war. The Study Diamond (The Open University (2013), Block 1, 2.3, p.75) will be used to explore the effects, techniques, context and meaning of the painting.
He left in 1919, having seen active front-line service in France and having narrowly escaped being killed when a German shell exploded three yards away from him and having been a victim of a gas-attack. In “An Inspector Calls”, Priestley uses a lot of his political views in the Inspectors speeches by using him as a kind of a mouthpiece for his socialism. The play was written in 1946; however it was set in 1912, just before the outbreak of WWI. This was a new era when people were no longer willing to accept the poverty or the class system that had gone before. Priestley strongly believed that everyone had some responsibility for others in society and not just their own welfare.
During the 1970’s, the Maurkis exhibited their work in the U.S. for the first time and this had affected their future murals greatly. Afterwards, they expanded their subject matter to the horrors of war in general rather than just atomic bombs i.e.“The Rape of Nanjing” in 1975. They related to Japanese culture strongly in their work, and I think it gives their work a very, peculiar aesthetic. They touch on subjects like the aftermath of war and honor the helpless victims of political violence. “Under the shattered structures amidst the excruciating flames.
Gunpowder Plot In this essay I am to write about a poem which focuses on someone’s experience. The title is ‘Gunpowder Plot’ by Vernon Scannel. In the poem the author tells us about someone’s experience in World War 2, then bonfire night 10 years later. The bonfire has been eagerly awaited by many people, but when the bangers are lit, Uncle John was forced to remember the war. All the explosions from the fireworks make him remember the explosions from the bombs and shells from the War.
Danielle Hogsed Medieval Art: Dr. Soleo-Shanks I chose the painting on page 43. It is entitled St Francis Renounces His Worldly Possessions by Giotto di Bondone. The artist is attempting to communicate the moment is St. Francis’s life where he denounced Peter Bernadone as his father, and claimed God as his only father, by stripping naked of the clothes he was wearing and returning them, along with money, back to his father. One thing that Dr. Soleo-Shanks talked about during her lecture was that the uses of lots of blues were a sign of importance. The color blue was very rare and very expensive, therefore used to depict important scenes.
Initially discovered by Louis-Jacques Daguerre in France in 1829. Photography developed so fast after Daguerre's initial discovery that by 1840 photographic records were being left for future historians. Because publishing companies realised the huge demand for photographs of the war, they wanted the chance to sell albums full of photographs. Roger Fenton, who became the first official war photographer, jumped at an offer from Thomas Agnew & Sons of Manchester in 1855. Fenton was instructed not to record any of the horrors of war such as death or any fighting, technology, in any case, wouldn't have allowed him to.
Much of Europe was afraid that the ideology of the French would spread to other countries because they knew similar problems were occurring. This is drastically similar to the situation in the Middle East where the Arab Spring has spread to multiple countries. The ongoing Arab spring has changed the Arabian world and way of life almost entirely. A young unemployed Tunisian man set himself on fire, a year ago. He did this after the officials stopped his attempts at making the only money he could get, selling fruit on the street.
The Spanish then went on to kill and capture Incan soldiers and Atahualpa probably realised then that the Spanish were after gold and silver and were not there for peace. Atahualpa actually offered them rooms full of gold and silver as a ransom for them to let him go but sadly he was never granted his freedom and was eventually killed on August 29, 1533 (The Fall of the Inca Empire). After taking control of the city Cajamarca the Spanish went on to capture the capital, Cusco and there they picked Atahualpa's brother as the new Sapa Inca giving them a puppet that they could control to their will. The Spanish conquest was the breaking point for the empire because it completely destroyed the empire pushing it to its fall. However, there was still one factor that ruined the Inca empire but didn’t push it because it was a civil war between two brothers within the
So he changed his name from Endre Friedmann to Robert Capa. He and Gerda were sent to Spain by the VU Magazine to capture the Civil War. Capa took the picture here, what made him famous: “The full title of the photograph is Loyalist Militiaman at the Moment of Death, Cerro Muriano, September 5, 1936.” (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/robert-capa/in-love-and-war/47/) “The Falling Soldier” picture is a great quality photo, although it was taken 75 years ago. A bullet hits the soldier’s head and the camera captured the moment when the soldier’s weapon almost touching the ground and his knees are bended. His arm blends into the background by separating his white shirt from his black weapon and shadow.
Napoleon's first major mistake was made in March of 1808, when Napoleon intervened in a dispute between the present king of Spain and the king's son. He placed them both in prison and put his own brother on the throne. The people of Spain did not take too kindly to this act and so began a bloody war that was not defined by major battles, but by guerrilla warfare that kept a large number of French troops occupied to keep control of the country. French troops would end up executing hundreds of Spaniards who were thought to be resisting French power. Britain saw an opportunity to weaken Napoleon's empire by landing 13,000 troops on the coast of Portugal, where they made their way up along Spain's coastline.