Facts:
1. The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock is considered a masterpiece of Modernism.
2. T. S. Eliot was accused of being Anti-Semitic due to depictions of Jews in poems.
3. Modernism is in its broadest cultural sense the assessment of the past as different to the modern age, the recognition that the world was becoming more complex, and that the old "final authorities" (God, government, science, and reason) were subject to intense critical scrutiny.
4. T. S. Eliot was called narcissistic and nonsensical, as well as Jewish and Negro by the Nazi government.
5. Modernist art is abstract, innovative, aesthetic, futuristic, and self-referential.
2. T. S. Eliot was accused of being Anti-Semitic due to depictions of Jews in poems.
3. Modernism is in its broadest cultural sense the assessment of the past as different to the modern age, the recognition that the world was becoming more complex, and that the old "final authorities" (God, government, science, and reason) were subject to intense critical scrutiny.
4. T. S. Eliot was called narcissistic and nonsensical, as well as Jewish and Negro by the Nazi government.
5. Modernist art is abstract, innovative, aesthetic, futuristic, and self-referential.
CSI:
Color: Red
Explanation: A dark red has always been associated with blood, and from there associated with hate. T.S. Eliot had many criticizers who framed him as anti-Semitic, narcissistic and nonsensical. Yet, a bright red is considered pleasing color, as with it's association with affection and love, thus connecting to the first fact.
Symbol: A Scribble
Explanation: A scribble, in it's random twists and turns, is kind of like a knot, and if you were to trace it, the line is extremely complex. Longer, more rounded curves commonly signify calmness, but in this case, the sharp, pointed corners to the line signify anger, a lot like the accusations made to T.S. Eliot. And yet, drawings are just a collection of scribbles, and drawings are art, so isn't scribbles, therefore, art? If anything, it's extremely abstract.
Explanation: A dark red has always been associated with blood, and from there associated with hate. T.S. Eliot had many criticizers who framed him as anti-Semitic, narcissistic and nonsensical. Yet, a bright red is considered pleasing color, as with it's association with affection and love, thus connecting to the first fact.
Symbol: A Scribble
Explanation: A scribble, in it's random twists and turns, is kind of like a knot, and if you were to trace it, the line is extremely complex. Longer, more rounded curves commonly signify calmness, but in this case, the sharp, pointed corners to the line signify anger, a lot like the accusations made to T.S. Eliot. And yet, drawings are just a collection of scribbles, and drawings are art, so isn't scribbles, therefore, art? If anything, it's extremely abstract.
Image: A sand structure of a face
Explanation: The expression on the face is one of anger or negativity towards the hand, a certain longing. Furthermore, the setting which the sculpture was made is strange" even though it was probably necessary to make this on a beach, beaches commonly represent serenity. This sculpture comes nowhere near to representing that, instead, it represents provocative action. This was made to represent the artist's reaction to what likely affected many others, that they feel overworked, like the Jews put into forced labor camps in the Holocaust.
Explanation: The expression on the face is one of anger or negativity towards the hand, a certain longing. Furthermore, the setting which the sculpture was made is strange" even though it was probably necessary to make this on a beach, beaches commonly represent serenity. This sculpture comes nowhere near to representing that, instead, it represents provocative action. This was made to represent the artist's reaction to what likely affected many others, that they feel overworked, like the Jews put into forced labor camps in the Holocaust.