These last few chapters discuss the art in China and Africa as means of personal expression about war and poverty in the late 1950s when many peasants and villagers took up painting in their free time to record their feelings about poverty and the paintings are made in a very complex manner and this painting,,A Lesson in the fields... is the first of this kind and leads up to the paintings about the revolution and shows crop spraying and patterned paintings on fabric reflect the landscape,some pictures show poverty showing a lack of medical facilities with baskets in abundance of herbs and glass vials showing the nature of primitive making of chemicals and healing powders.We actually see peasants discussing their paintings now.
Next discussion is actually about African paintings even though the music was and is the main art form used to express."The Indigenous cultures defined and redefined themselves against the onslaught of colonialism..."page 99...This was a time of repressed and persecution and humiliation n of the villagers.This is shown in the villagers' art.Naive painting styles with enlarged arms and hands and sad expressions prevail.Even simple large mud sculptures are being made in the villages at this time.They presented artworks which were using found materials to express their constant poverty and humiliation. I will end this course with this quote from the author,Bertold Brecht 1956
"And I always thought: the very simplest words must be enough.When I say what things are like,everyone's heart must be torn to shreds.That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself.Surely you see that:I can easily relate to this in m y own life today.
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