December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
208 pages
3h 39m
English
Art can sometimes advocate, take a position, or persuade. While political and social issues come and go, some polemical works have endured.
• The Disasters of War, 1810–1820. Françesco Goya (1746–1828). (See opposite) This is a suite of etchings that exposes the brutality of war.
• The Raft of the Medusa, 1818–1819. Théodore Géricault (1791–1824). (See opposite)
• The Execution of the Emperor Maximilian, 1867–1869. Édouard Manet (1832–1883). Manet used flattened space and graphic strength to convey the machinelike brutality of the execution.
• Guernica, 1937. Pablo Picasso (1881–1973). Picasso used highly personal vocabulary to protest a bombing.
• F-111, 1964. James Rosenquist (1933–2017). Created during the Vietnam ...