Art F200X blog Sawyer Christiansen

      For my non-western art exhibit, I have chosen art created during the Palestinian genocide. Most/all of the art in this blog was created by individuals outside of Palestine, because it's kind of hard to create art while there's an active genocide being committed against you. All of my art will be from different creators on Instagram, because I'd rather get the artworks directly from their artists rather than some random website. I had the idea of of choosing artworks from various not well recognized countries, but the assignment I'm doing this blog for requires only a single country and time frame, so I chose the ill-recognized country  that's gained the most traction in media recently; Palestine.     The first piece of art I have chosen for this exhibit was posted to instagram on mothers day(march 7th) of this year, 2024, by Seyma Sarıyıldız . This piece of art intends to remind the more fortunate people that less fortunate people are dying every day in Palest

     With the widespread commercialization of the cordless telephone and the birth of the internet in the early 1980's, humanity became connected in a way that would be incomprehensible to earlier generations. The trend of connection has since kept up with the invention of the cellphone and social media, which allow you to instantly communicate with nearly anyone, anytime. This drastic increase in connectivity has effected the rate at which information spreads, how cultures blend, how we treat each other, and so much more, all of which have an effect on the art and media created after the 1980's.      My first work for my Age of Connectivity exhibit is the 2019 videogame "Death Stranding", developed by Hideo Kojima. I'm not sure if videogames count as a work for use in an exhibit, but I'm going to use it anyways because I don't think there's enough time for me to email the professor to ask, get a response, and finish the assignment in time. This game i

My first artwork for my early modern blog is " Epidemic "(1900-1901) by Alfred Kubin. First and foremost, I would absolutely not own Epidemic . This piece of art is creepy as hell and I would not want to see it while walking around my home. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a cool drawing but the creep factor is not doing it any favors in the ownability aspect. Much of this piece is unexceptional and wouldn't draw attention, but then there's an oddly proportioned bone colossus taking up a majority of the frame spreading what I can only assume to be death and disease(given the title) to the houses below. This drawing is closely connected to scientific innovation through the discovery of diseases and viruses. Germ theory had not become popular until the late 1800s, shortly before this piece was drawn, and I believe it derives a lot of inspiration from the then-recently popularized theory. My second artwork is "Black Square"(1915) by Kazimir Malevich. I