These two articles are similar in that they both discuss very important art discoveries that coincide with the history of America. However, one article is about an artwork that tells the history of the Us while the other talks about a specific moment of time, The Cold War, and how art was used then. The article "Brother Can You Spare a Wall" is about the work of Thomas Hart Benton and his huge multi-panel exhibit titled "America Today" [See pictures below] In this work, he highlights the important moments in the history of America. The other article was a response to the Connection #2 post on Art in the Cold War written by Meghan Lee. In her response she questions the articles, summarizes them, and asks poses some very intriguing questions. Though the two articles are not related very directly, they are both intertwined with the history of America, not just the art history of America. I really like Benton's exhibit. The size itself its absolutely insane and it blows my mind to even think about painting something that large. Also, he manages to work in so many important stages of American history into this one piece and as you look at different panels, you're not only traveling through art pieces but also through time itself, and I admire that. In addition to his incredible ability to portray the history on such a large surface, I also love his technique, the panels are beautiful and informative at the same time. Usually art itself is a means of studying history, but actually painting history is beautiful. I relate this exhibit sort of to cave painting, in a way that they both document history. In conclusion, I just think that it's an amazing idea to put so much rich history into one exhibit. The most interesting thing I found about the article dealing with Benton, was simply that I had never heard of this exhibit before. It seems just as worthy of extreme popularity as Picasso in my opinion, at least this particular artwork. It's incredible and groundbreaking in its size, accuracy, and style. It makes me wonder what else I've been missing out on without even realizing it. Meghan's post deals with a slightly related question that she posed, she asked if there could be entire art movements that we've missed out on and have gone undocumented imply because they weren't funded by rich people. That question really got me thinking and I would love to see if I could find some small evidence that would support that idea, though sad, it is very interesting. Because the two articles serve different purposes, it's logically that the voices would be different. The Benton article was very informative, factual, and in awe of the work, whereas Meghan's response was much more personal and questionative.
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Today, during calculus class, my mother sent me this picture, informing me that my dog had knocked my project over and it was broken, I can probably redo it in time, but it definitely will not be sprouted before the due date. Then I went and talked to Coach, and he said that he understands that seeds won't have sprouted by the due date. He then suggested that I should display it differently, with wires rather than on the board, and to scratch the dead flowers, however, I wasn't going to get home until 10 pm, so I had to do it all the next night.
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