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This 5 page report discusses two paintings created in the 1930's. Mexican artist David
Alfaro Siqueiros's "Echo of a Scream" is a dark and disturbing depiction of suffering and
anguish. Peter Blume's "The Eternal City" is a complicated and surrealistic view of
Rome. The overall purpose of the paper is to describe each painting and explain why the
writer "prefers" Blume's work over that of Siqueirios. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_BW2paint.rtf
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processes so complex that they can never be fully tracked or analyzed" (Martin and Jacobus 5). The student comparing two paintings based on a subjective analysis as well as a
critical perspective will want to consider what he or she experienced in their first moment of seeing the paintings. The purpose of art, the creation of art, the interpretation of
art, and the teaching of art has always and still remains a process in which the interpreter fits his or her own impressions into certain parameters as surely as the
art work itself. It is also important that student recognize that in order to understand that art, be it music, literature or the visual arts, he or she must acknowledge
that it is a reflection of the way people think and behave. It is also a precursor to where the society is going because it involves the processes of
past and present in a way that suggests the future even as it serves to mirror the present. Plato (and, by extension, Socrates) held that art should be judged
according to its truth, but it can only provide a "true opinion" since it must be judged by external standards. It is those external standards that are often the most
telling in terms of the underlying historical perspective offered within the art. The "Truth" of Two Paintings Having examined both paintings and determined that he or she does not "like"
Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiross "Echo of Scream" and does like Peter Blumes "The Eternal City," the obvious question is simply "why?" Certainly, neither of the paintings could be defined
as "pretty" and both are "disturbing." However, each appears to be declaring the artists own truth. For example, and according to Carlos Rodriguez Saavedra: "Like the painter himself, the work
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