Why haven’t we learned our lesson? War in art: November 20
We should value human life above all else, even above the need to get or keep statehood. There are too many rational voices in the world now for our disagreements to have to end in death, especially the deaths of civilians, people who are in the wrong place at the wrong time and lose their lives because of it. We’ve been depicting war through our art representationally for thousands of years, and although things seem to be getting better now that we can all learn about things so quickly, there’s still way too much hate in this world.
Centauromachy, from the Parthenon metopes, 447-432 BCE
from a class slideshow |
The Rape of the Sabine Women, part of the story of Rome’s founding
from a class slideshow |
US Civil War, 1861-1865
foundĀ here. |
Guernica by Pablo Picasso, interpretation of the Spanish Civil War, 1937
found here. |
Vietnam War, 1959-1975
foundĀ here. |