Research Theory - Jewish Research Centre

Art of Europe from RS Europe 

 

 

• The Age we are in that is the Information Age …. fed by the provision of technological data and information. 

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• How is this information received? By the technology of internet, contemporary art, and advanced design. 

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• Geologists break down our planet's history into eras, periods, epochs, and ages. Our current era is the Cenozoic, which is itself broken down into three periods. the Quaternary, which is then broken down into two epochs: the current Holocene, and the previous Pleistocene, which ended 11,700 years ago.

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• What about the Anthropocene???

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• What constitutes the information of the Jamaican Jewish experience? Contextualizing Expulsions and Persecution, Conversion, Hiding, Marginalization, Prosperity, Impurity, Assimilation (Ethnic and Racial), Survival, Wealth, Classism, Philanthropy, Modernization, and Monumental Commemoration 

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• Information Historic(ism)??? 

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• The Art(s) … Romanticism (medieval and revolutionary); Realism (situational, industrial); Impressionism (nature and light), Claude Monet and Rodin; Post-Impressionist (like pointillism) , Vincent van Gogh (dignity and struggles of the poor, spirituality, and life), from lessons learn from Cézanne, and Gaugin. 

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• Technologies and Art … Art Nouveau… early industrial technology and art (Alphonse Mucha) flowery and living nature pastels and motifs on structures and facades and even jewelry, “Moderisme and Young Style” ornamental and leafy and colourful glass (Gaudi, God’s architect) Christian symbolism and nature … “nothing is inventive for its first written in nature”; modern art and symbolism (Gustav Klimt) hedonistic noble and bewitching and mysterious all in one. 

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• Art(s) Early 20th century Fauvism by Matisse … ignoring reality for what is felt more than what is seen; mask like coloured ways into the time of Abstraction (Picasso)… Cubism with its multiple perspectives, blending all planes and objects against old time representational art; Expressionism of the uncertain early 20th century … emotional experience, trauma an distorted themes; 

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• Surrealism that explores the subconscious… (landscapes of the mind) … jumbling objects, landscapes, and human bodies into one at times in metaphorical ways … (Salvador Dali) … intriguing and disturbing. 

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• Abstract art … like face on a stick… 3D world becoming 2D mashup of colours and shapes in nature, spiritual and geometric (Marc Chagall) … God is everywhere and in everyday things, he embraces surrealism and cubism into his own expressions; Picasso’s Guernica 1937 denoted the horrors of WW2 due to German fascism. 
   

• After the WW, Picasso painted newly found freedom in his works; carefree living and exploring life after …

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• Social Realism of Eastern Europe came into being vs that of the west …. traditional idealism of communism (art as propaganda) 

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• Interpretations of nontraditional materials cravings and works that engage the senses, cartoons, over scaled objects, blow torch art, balloons to animals, flowers for texture of sculptures etc. and deep experimentation that influenced architecture such as pianos Pompidou and works Gehry; old building renewed on contemporary technology in light and form and biomimicry, 

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• Street art: Banksy with a social message and street turned into virtual public art gallery; expression and realism in sculptures. 

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A Long Journey: The Hidden Jews of the Southwest

A Long Journey: The Hidden Jews of the Southwest | PBS

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The Jewish Journey America PBS

The Jewish Journey America - video Dailymotion 

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