REPRESENTATIONS THE EPIDEMIC IN MURAL PAINTING, ANCIENT AND MODERN

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Faculty of Fine Arts, Helwan University

10.47436/jaars.2023.332779

Abstract

Epidemics were and still are throughout history a fertile material for the plastic artists who represented (expressed) the horrors of the tragedy with aesthetic features that ranged from despair and life. (Covid-19) and others, which caused economic and social changes, turning some cities into ghosts or defeating countries and empires regardless of age, gender and religion, and these precipitated and stimulated medical and scientific discoveries. On an equal footing, the artist recorded artistic scenes through line, color and art attached to life.
Whoever contemplates the painting of Pieter Bruegel the Elder (The Triumph of Death (156930-1569) after a visit to the Italian city of Palermo 1522, as well as the fresco Guernica by Picasso (1881-1973) and the painting The Bridge of Souls, Hermius Bosch, and plastic art today is embodied in the restoration of the human spirit by renewing the interpretation of the phenomenon Epidemiological, to transform it from the end of the world to the beginning of a new life after the epidemic

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Journal of Arts & Architecture Research Studies
Volume 4, Issue 8 - Serial Number 8
Volume 4 - Issue 8 - December 2023
December 2023
Pages 275-292

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