Who Is Griffith´s The Surrender '?

The painting that is being analyzed in this paper is “We Came, We Saw, We Conquered.” Nancy

Paintings are different than books or movies because they allow you to create your own thoughts and interpretations rather than telling you what you should think. This allows creative and different takes on an original piece of art.The Surrender, a painting by Joseph Griffith, was published in October of 2006. It features two sides in what appears to be a war. The left side is occupied by the epitome of American icons and showcases the American flag, while the left side contains, not only enemies of America, but “bad guys” from classic movies surrendering with a white flag. This painting can be interpreted as labeling popular American icons as heroes, showing the change in society’s change in what they consider a role model.

As for my Visual Analysis Task, I have chosen to write about this image on the left. This piece was recently created by Shepard Fairey a street artist. This was made in response to the election of Donald Trump- known as the President of the United States. ‘We the People’ features portraits of Native Americans, African Americas, Muslims, and Latinas portrays in Fairey’s trademark style with slogans such as “Women are Perfect” and “Defend Dignity”.

Even today some American people have a strong biased towards Iranian and Muslim people based on their stereotypes as terrorist. The change in view point started in the 70s as Fawaz A. Gerges, Academic Journalist, states in his journal Islam and Muslims in the Mind of America that, “The 1978-1979 Iranian revolution and ensuing hostage crisis shocked many U.S. officials into viewing Islam as a threat to Western interest” (Gerges 70). The media also played a large part of the ways that Americans viewed Iranian and Muslim people. Cissy Shelton recollects her memories of media coverage by stating “The Iranians were always shown on TV as very angry there was always demonstrations they always were saying death to America they totally wanted nothing to do with America” (citation). She also argues that the coverage show on the television was also a reason why people have issues with Islamic people today: “And I think that’s why we have problems today with the Middle East”

A war won by pure heart and soul. Americans are underdogs in this war but in the end they come out on top. That’s the good news, but the bad is how the war was started. Paul Revere’s painting is extremely influential in starting the war. I feel it shows who the cowards are in this war, how and whose blood was shed in the massacre, and what effect this had on America.

An artist's job is to interpret, and express the aspects of life in a creative fashion. War has played a big part in shaping our human history, and many artists have portrayed their feelings about art through paintings, and even monuments. Whether it be to show; the joy of victory, the sorrow of defeat, or to educate the public on the gory realities of war. Art about war can also show us a great amount of history of the kinds of weapons that were used at the time. It is necessary for artists to interpret, and criticize all aspects of life; even ones as tragic as war, It can make the public more aware of what goes on in times of war.

Delving even further, Hesford and Kozol explain how this visual rhetoric of ‘rescue’ relies sufficiently on the “familiar dualism of tradition and modernity to champion human rights” within a context of Western ‘liberation.’ By identifying the eminent relationship between gender, human rights and “cultures of security,” Hesford and Kozol illuminate how the U.S. ‘culture of security’ is thus established through “visual images of Otherness,” to include this image of

In this photo a Middle Eastern woman is pointing a gun directly towards the camera, symbolizing the way she, like many others, are stereotyped in America. The picture is clear and concise, with front view and level angles that let the viewers see the struggles she has gone faced. Her face and arms display Arabic writings that symbolize the stereotypes given to them in America: terrorists, muslims, extremists, and fanatics. The picture is limited to the colors black and white to represent the seriousness of this issue. Her eyes staring directly towards the viewer causes them to feel sympathy, leading them to wonder why there is such hate towards Middle Easterners. The concepts of this picture go back to the main idea of the research question

At the first glance, The Surrender looks like a painting out of a dream, or a heavily distracted vision of The Surrender at Yorktown. Thinking back to the origins of The Surrender at Yorktown, the painting had a few basic themes that -in my eyes- are still carried in The Surrender. The Surrender carries themes of freedom and what it means to be (or fight as) an American.

Painters enormously manipulated the truth in their portraits they painted since they aimed to present a specific meaning or feeling to their observers. One of the results, paintings of America`s wars especially before the Civil War had a

Many attribute the evolution of the French revolution as the catalyst for redirection of the style of artwork from Baroque and Rococo to Neoclassical and Romanticism. Two leading masterpieces that support this aspect are respectively: Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, (c. 1784) and Eugène Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, (c. 1830). As commented in Essential Humanities (2016), the French revolution “in all its heroic glory and grisly destruction” (par. 10) is masterfully portrayed in Delacroix 's personification of liberty. In addition, the summons for commitment to the cause of freedom is classically rendered in David 's vow of victory or death. Within this essay both of these paintings are examined in regards to their connection to the French revolution.

Art has always been used to voice emotions or stories in a way that can easily be understood. Conquering nations used art to immortalize their leaders, warriors and conquests. Similarly, conquered nations used art to keep their cultures alive. This pattern of dueling voices, those in power versus the oppressed, is shown throughout American art. From slavery and the Civil War to World War II to the modern day, art has been there to stand up to oppressors and keep faith alive for the oppressed. No era better shows a revolution against oppression and cruelty through art than the Harlem Renaissance of the early 1920s.

The image proposed by the decadents is a violent one, an image that shocks by having a fascinating and terrifying power. It is a image that stimulates and also stimulates.

The perspective of this piece can also be seen in how they represent the cultures. Europeans tended to view the Americans as an uncivilized people and this is represented in the piece with how the American is seen standing up, wearing little clothing, and holding a bow as if he is getting ready to go hunting or go to war. On the other hand China and the Middle East, which are seen by Europeans as much older, civilized cultures are sitting down, and they look like they are ready to have a discussion.

The revolutions of 1830 and 1848 sparked a steady stream of political artwork showing scenes of battle and rebellious uprising. Eugene Delacroix’s portrait of Liberty Leading the People, 29 July 1830 reflects the events of the French banded together from varying classes in battle following a bare breasted Liberty. Ernest Meissonier’s painting The Barricade in Rue Mortellerie, Paris, June 1848 is a sad image of a drab Parisian street with dead revolutionaries as a result of social class fighting.