Kathy's proposal

With much of the world news being about the revolutions in the Middle East at the moment I thought it might be interesting to look at revolutions as a theme both historically and present. Early revolutions particularly the French revolution would probably have been recorded mostly though painting but as time progressed and photography took off more and more wars and revolutions have been recorded photographically. I propose that we create and exhibition which includes art/photography based on this theme.

First I've been looking at paintings of revolutions.
This first one is Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People, a portrayal of the French Revolution painted in 1830. Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberty_Leading_the_People

Another revolution painting is that of Gustave Wappers portrayal of the Belgian Revolution.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wappers_-_Episodes_from_September_Days_1830_on_the_Place_de_l’Hôtel_de_Ville_in_Brussels.JPG



This photograph is of the Libyan Revolution and was taken from the Guardian Newspaper.

Rebel fighters jump away from shrapnel during heavy shelling by forces loyal to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi near Bin Jawad. Photograph: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

This is just an initial look at a few images. I think it's interesting how the paintings are very dramatic and almost try to depict the whole event in one Painting. The photographs I looked at were also very dramatic, but more so than the paintings. This is probably because the depict actual events and you can almost feel the tension within them. The theme could just be war rather than revolutions and we could look at the images of people like Robert Cappa.  Another interesting image is that of the girl running from Napalm in the Vietnam war which I think was taken by Nick Ut. We could compare these with images taken in more recent wars such as those in Iraq and Afganistan.

It wouldn't let me add the images to the blog so I've added the links instead hope it all works!

Apologies

Hi guys,
Sorry I'm not well enough to be with you for the meeting. I've been signed off sick for the week by my GP. I've managed to set up the blog for us though so we can all start posting and adding stuff once we know what the theme is!
I've put my proposal on here so you can all take a look.
As I'm not there I'm happy to go with whatever you all decide. Just let me know what you want me to do and I will make a start.
Kathy :)