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Los zapatos en el danubio de Claudia Solís Umpierrez
PORTFOLIO
As you can see this piece of art is related to the WW2. Can you SHARE your reflection with the rest of the class?
stella
PORTFOLIO
As you can see this piece of art is related to the WW2. Can you SHARE your reflection with the rest of the class?
- Go to the COMENTARIOS section and leave your impression.
- Then go to your Portfolio, choose at least FIVE opinions/reflections and paste them in your portfolio.
stella
My impression is just sadness and helplessness. How many lives died and their shoes are a great memory for all the people who suffered for trying to survive the war.
ResponderEliminarFlorencia Sanabria
it is a very sad and brilliant piece of art. I think it reflects the absence of the people who were killed.There is an emptiness feeling (in my opinion) the shoes there, make me feel as it just happened. It's like travel to the past, to that specific moment.
ResponderEliminarAll these shoes are a reminder of all the people killed and shot into the Danube by the nazis. I feel as their souls are looking down to their shoes hoping we would never forget them and that these horrors will never happen again.
ResponderEliminarPaula Nagel
In my opinion, this sad piece of art keeps alive the memory of all those people who were killed.
ResponderEliminarEduardo Garcia.
I agree with Karen, homehow it reflects the absence of the people murdered on war. The feeling I had of this piece of art as soon as I saw it, was similar to projecting yourself standing in front of the abyss. Face to face with such magnitude of events, and the despair of not being able or not knowing how to change your destiny.
ResponderEliminarBravo Selene S.
It's an interesting memorial for the people killed during the Nazi Hungarian regime.
ResponderEliminarAnother memorial I've seen is The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, which is located in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
It's made of a lot of concrete slabs.
Pictures are very moving , in particular those that show the stigma and the mass of murder of more than 6 millom people, specially Jewish people, and some other persecuted groups, such as Gypsies, and homosexuals,by the German Nazi regime during the second world war.
ResponderEliminarDaniel Medina
Interesting reflections. REMEMBER TO CONTEXTUALIZE YOUR ANSWER...These events took place in the mid 40s, WW2, Europe, etc.
ResponderEliminarGo through your notes and analize the HISTORICAL MOMENT.
stella :-)
In 1940 Hungary had been forced to join the Axis (i.e. the group of countries that fought against the Allies) and had helped to invade Yugoslavia. On the other hand, near 1944 they had started armistice negotiations with the United States. When Germany discovered that, they invaded Hungary, and a fascist leader deposed the Regent of Hungary. The owners of those shoes were killed during the government of a pro-Nazi political party: Hungary´s Arrow Cross. This government only lasted few months near the end of the Second World War…
ResponderEliminarIn 2011 some human bones were found in the Danube. They belonged to some of the 3.600 people that were killed and thrown into the water. These shoes the artist recreated in their memory evoke deep feelings like emptiness, sadness and impotence…
In my opinion, this piece of art is a very impressive monument because it reminds us the monstrosities that the nazis did to people during the WW2 and this art is a way of not forgetting all those people who died there.
ResponderEliminarKaren Franco.
More deep thoughts... Whart about the rest?
ResponderEliminarMore and more opinions and ideas are welcome.
stella
You can never not pass alongside those shoes and stop for a moment and not wonder about the story that lays behind them. It's important that the human kind don't lose its memory on the horrors, the uncountable death tolls and despicable tragedies that all wars caussed.
ResponderEliminarMaintaining a concious memory through art, is what artists like Gyula Pauer and Can Togay do. They give a voice and respect for those who no longer stay with us, but live in this monuments.
Watching this Art and knowing the story of it, it's heart breaking.
Luna, Fernando
This tribute to the victims of the holocaust made me think of the desperation of those people about to be murdered just for being Jewish. It is so sad to see what hatred can harm humanity. all they art about the holocaust and wars is a very important way of not forgetting what happened and they victims.
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