Bluebeard
Bluebeard
Sara Bierly
D. I think the theme to this painting would be Politics and the Social Order because, the way Rabo describes the painting reminds me of Eugene Delacroix’s painting “Liberty Leading the People”. The picture in the potato barn is an enormous realistic painting of what the Karabekian’s experienced in World War II. Delacroix’s painting displays the Revolutionary war. Although the painting signifies liberty and justice unlike Rabo’s painting, it displays the suffering and realistic brutality of the war. Politics is largely involved in Rabo’s painting due to the presence of war and history of the war. Showing his involvement along with others to bring peace and societal independence which is part of what this theme is about. There is much social conflict in the painting, it demonstrates Rabo’s feelings and how many of his people truly suffered in this war scene.
D. The book displays that Dan Gregory, in fact; hates modern art. Gregory had finished a realistic and uncensored painting; Rabo says “The Emperor has no clothes.” Gregory says on page 147 “I want you to say that out loud and with just that degree of conviction,” “anytime anyone has anything good to say about so-called modern art.”
“It’s the work of swindlers and lunatics and degenerates,” “and the fact that many people are now taking it seriously proves to me that the world has gone mad, I hope you agree.” He then goes on and says “Mussolini thinks so, too”… He says the first thing Mussolini would do if he took over this country would be to “burn down the Museum of Modern Art and outlaw the word democracy.”
I think part of the reason Gregory loathes modern art is because Mussolini feels the same. Gregory admires Mussolini and his work, the censoring of humans is more of modern art style whereas back then, un-censoring was more realistic and natural.
Sara Bierly
D. I think the theme to this painting would be Politics and the Social Order because, the way Rabo describes the painting reminds me of Eugene Delacroix’s painting “Liberty Leading the People”. The picture in the potato barn is an enormous realistic painting of what the Karabekian’s experienced in World War II. Delacroix’s painting displays the Revolutionary war. Although the painting signifies liberty and justice unlike Rabo’s painting, it displays the suffering and realistic brutality of the war. Politics is largely involved in Rabo’s painting due to the presence of war and history of the war. Showing his involvement along with others to bring peace and societal independence which is part of what this theme is about. There is much social conflict in the painting, it demonstrates Rabo’s feelings and how many of his people truly suffered in this war scene.
D. The book displays that Dan Gregory, in fact; hates modern art. Gregory had finished a realistic and uncensored painting; Rabo says “The Emperor has no clothes.” Gregory says on page 147 “I want you to say that out loud and with just that degree of conviction,” “anytime anyone has anything good to say about so-called modern art.”
“It’s the work of swindlers and lunatics and degenerates,” “and the fact that many people are now taking it seriously proves to me that the world has gone mad, I hope you agree.” He then goes on and says “Mussolini thinks so, too”… He says the first thing Mussolini would do if he took over this country would be to “burn down the Museum of Modern Art and outlaw the word democracy.”
I think part of the reason Gregory loathes modern art is because Mussolini feels the same. Gregory admires Mussolini and his work, the censoring of humans is more of modern art style whereas back then, un-censoring was more realistic and natural.