The image of Panel from the Amazon Frieze reminded me of a scene right out of Saving Private Ryan. The horrific images that we as a race have come to know from war have been burned into our minds. Wars no matter what era or time they take place are still wars. Even with our technology people including soldiers and innocent victims lose their lives. Coming out of the Army this panel to me just really represented the art of the fight. The whole good v. evil idea that we have all come to know. The funny thing is that even from a portrait or painting no one can tell which side is the good side and which is the bad. People in images like this may look like the victim, butin reality may be the original aggressor. While I was in boot camp we were often called to classrooms for lectures. In these lectures we would learn about the horrors of war and how we had to be prepared to even kill children. An image like this one proves that it is in mans nature to fight and kill for what he/she believes is right. And again proves how mankind, no matter how much technology or education we have, is still just a society of people not unlike the societys of the past. Holding jobs, raising families and fighting wars.
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I think that we do still tend to glorify war but not as openly as the ancient Greeks. When we find war as the subject of modern art it tends to be a more shameful thing. I think the art we're looking at here is meant specifically to glorify war which seems awful to most of us now. I was always under the impression that advancing as a civilization or as a species meant rising above war. Either I am wrong in this assumption or we havn't advanced much at all.
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