Homeplace: A Site of Resistance
The artist that I chose to spotlight along with the theme in class, “Home place: A Site of Resistance”, was female German-Jewish painter, Charlotte Salomon. Charlotte Salomon was a young woman who lived in Germany during the Holocaust, and was under the reign of Adolph Hitler. Young Salomon lived in exile in France During World War II, where she created the play, Life? Or Theatre?, A Play with Music, and painted many expressive oil paintings, depicting events of the era. The particular painting that I chose to relate to our class was, “The Day for Freedom and Bread”, in which Charlotte depicts the day that Hitler became chancellor of the nation. There is a backwards swastika in the middle of the painting, depicting how wrong the entire reign of Hitler was to mankind, and also a number in the middle, which scholars say was probably Charlotte’s identification number, or her mother’s whom she was very close to during these trying times. Charlotte’s work is very real and almost painful when you leaf through some of her collections. Her paintings were done with s
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Approximate Word count = 745
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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