First Blogging Assignment

                                The Influence of Art in Edo Japan The Edo-period in Japan spanned hundreds of years, lasting from 1603 all the way to 1868. Ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate, It's known as an era off stability and security as this period brought peace after many centuries of war prior. Due to the political stability and economic growth this led to a flourishing of the arts through the merging of urban culture, and artistic innovation. The works I selected show the product of this period and the influence it made on the world.                                                                             Hishikawa Moronobu's "Beauty Looking Back" (c.1700)...

                                           The Vietnam War through Art The Vietnam War, commonly called the American War as well as the Second Indochina War, was a war that spanned nearly twenty years, starting from November 1st, 1955, and lasted all the way up to April 30th, 1975.  This war had a great influence on those involved in the war and outside and was able to be reflected through artists that were involved during this period. To help illustrate this for you, here are some examples I chose.: Martha Rosler is an American artist, born in New York City, New York, in 1943. This first painting is entitled,  Cleaning the Drapes.  It featured in Martha Rosler's series of photomontages called  House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home   (c. 1967–72). I thought the contrast of the black and white photo behind the color curtains was inter...

 Early Modern Blog, by Jasper Carpenter.  The Influence of World War I   A Dawn, 1914  by Charles Richard Wynne (a.k.a. C.R.W.) Nevinson.  Nevinson is considered the definitive British artist of the First World War.  This particular painting is set in Flanders, part of Belgium, France and the Netherlands. It hauntingly transports the viewer to the time when French soldiers, known as poilus, marched to the trenches that would become the stuff of their living nightmares. Little did they know what horrors awaited them there. These soldiers were not volunteers, and instead were conscripted. The uniforms worn by the soldiers appear dark blue with grey and black, interspersed with reds, oranges and browns. The shapes remind me of cubism with the geometric shapes of the faces and bodies, and the weapons held by the soldiers, as well as on the buildings. There is a solemnity to the marching as the head to the trenches, many to their deaths. You can almost hear the ...