The Endless Effects Of Propaganda Art
The endless effects of Propaganda Art is not all about beauty. Sometimes art is merely a feeling after taking in an image. When we look at an image, it often reflects back at us like a mirror as we rely on perception to figure out the artist’s purpose, which is sometimes indirectly stated. When it comes to propaganda art; however, this is not the case. Propaganda art can be defined as a form of art that utilizes extreme images in means of dehumanizing and depriving people of their integrity. While with traditional art, the artist’s intention is unknown but with propaganda art, the message is prevalent. A period where propaganda art was prevalent was World War II. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the American people felt they could no longer
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The purpose of this film was to depict the Japanese as ruthless and evil beings. For example, at one point, the group decides to split apart and then one of the teams gets trapped by the Japanese and then is tortured and mutilated. Another anti-propaganda film made the same year was First Yank into Tokyo (First). The film starts with an American officer who undergoes plastic surgery to look like a Japanese in order to enter a prison camp to rescue a scientist who has information about the atomic bomb. The officer rescues his girlfriend and a nurse along the way. At the end when his girlfriend and the others get on the boat home, the officer retreats back sacrificing himself saying he can never live the same life again looking like a Japanese. As Robert McLaughlin stated, “the film asserts that it’s better to be dead than to look Japanese” (McLaughlin, …show more content…
Instead of being something meant to be appreciated, people have used art in ways to portray the weakness of others. The U.S. government used propaganda art in means to dehumanize the Japanese, not realizing that not every Japanese believes in the same values to those who bombed Pearl Harbor. Propaganda art has made art into something meant to be so beautiful and exquisite into something deadly. While the people who have suffered from propaganda will never forget its effects, propaganda is still prevalent and portrayed in art today, another stance to show how history repeats
The purpose of this film was to depict the Japanese as ruthless and evil beings. For example, at one point, the group decides to split apart and then one of the teams gets trapped by the Japanese and then is tortured and mutilated. Another anti-propaganda film made the same year was First Yank into Tokyo (First). The film starts with an American officer who undergoes plastic surgery to look like a Japanese in order to enter a prison camp to rescue a scientist who has information about the atomic bomb. The officer rescues his girlfriend and a nurse along the way. At the end when his girlfriend and the others get on the boat home, the officer retreats back sacrificing himself saying he can never live the same life again looking like a Japanese. As Robert McLaughlin stated, “the film asserts that it’s better to be dead than to look Japanese” (McLaughlin, …show more content…
Instead of being something meant to be appreciated, people have used art in ways to portray the weakness of others. The U.S. government used propaganda art in means to dehumanize the Japanese, not realizing that not every Japanese believes in the same values to those who bombed Pearl Harbor. Propaganda art has made art into something meant to be so beautiful and exquisite into something deadly. While the people who have suffered from propaganda will never forget its effects, propaganda is still prevalent and portrayed in art today, another stance to show how history repeats