Linking Question
How are History and the Arts connected? (linked to ARTS)
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connected? (linked to the ARTS)
This video begins to explain how history and art are connected as a whole. In researching evidence to support the linking question I came across this video that I thought was very interesting. It displays how are has changed throughout the course of 500 years in the light of female portraits and Western Art. The video displays how styles of art have changed and how personal appearance has also evolved. History is connected to the arts through many different aspects and this video begins to touch on them. It shows how important it is to preserve works of art for future investigational and educational uses. Art, in the form of paintings, political cartoons, and short films, allow people to learn more than what is simply on the canvas. People can investigate technique style, color, and even beging to analyze meaning in a piece of art to learn more than what's drawn on the paper. Art brings us another glimpse of the past, another way to learn and gain understanding of an historical event or time period.
The Auschwitz- Birkenau Memorial and Museum suggests that history and the arts are connected in a sad, but serious way. The old Holocaust concentration camp provides an educational place for people to visit and learn though different experiences. The museum contains old camp and prisoner items, personal possessions, and works of art. The artistic pieces were created by both free people and prisoners living in the concentration camps. This gives viewers a look at both sides of the conflict and helps them to learn about the horrific, but true, historical event. The art and Holocaust items give people a sense of reality to the event. It shows people that the Holocaust isn't just something you read in books, it was an actual event and reality for many people.