1. Art Criticism pgs. 17-20 blue packet
Description: What do you see?
Analyze: How did the artist do it?
Interpretation: What is the artist trying to say? What is going on in the picture?
Evaluation: What do I think about this artwork? How do I feel about whether the artist was successful in conveying an idea?

3. This artwork contains a sad little girl that is bleeding from the nose and holding a teddy bear, all while she is standing in a landscape of rubble. There are five people in the background that are looking directly at the little girl; two men are photographing her, a woman with a clip board and headphones has her arm extended that prevents two men wearing red crosses from interfering with the sad event that is occurring.
  The artist used jagged lines to create the disorder and destruction surrounding the little girl. The little girl is placed slightly off-center in the foreground for the viewer in order to place greater emphasis on her, while placing the observers in the background. The most noticeable use of the elements of art is the use of only one color, red. The artist used an intense red to draw the viewer’s attention to the blood on the girl’s face and on the Red Cross men that want to help the child. The placement of the people in the artwork and the use of red place great emphasis on the child being depicted because it makes the viewer’s eyes refer back to the little girl.
  The destruction surrounding the child, blood on her face, and her facial expression tells us that it is a sad and uncomfortable environment. The scene is also disturbing because the adults are not helping the innocent and crying child. Instead, they are taking advantage of her situation and documenting it for their own benefit. The artist utilizes this scene to make his audience aware of the great lengths that the news media is willing to go to in order to obtain a “touching” story.
  This artwork is very powerful and thought provoking because the artist provides a different perspective for his audience about the news media. He confronts the viewer with a dramatic scene of helplessness in order to get his social message across. Therefore, this artwork successfully achieves and meets the criteria for the aesthetic theory of instrumentalism. 

4. “Shema”
By Primo Levi

5. You who live secure In your warm houses, Who return at evening to find Hot food and friendly faces:
Consider whether this is a man, Who labors in the mud Who knows no peace Who fights for a crust of bread Who dies at a yes or a no. Consider whether this is a woman, Without hair or name With no more strength to remember Eyes empty and womb cold As a frog in winter.
Consider that this has been: I commend these words to you. Engrave them on your hearts When you are in your house, when you walk on your way, When you go to bed, when you rise. Repeat them to your children. Or may your house crumble, Disease render you powerless, Your offspring avert their faces from you.
Primo Levi: a Jewish-Italian poet and writer, was born in Turin in Before the Second World War he was an industrial chemist. In 1943 he was arrested and deported to Auschwitz, where he survived due to his “usefulness” to the Nazis as a chemist. His most famous prose work is “If This is a Man” in which he wrote about his experiences in Auschwitz. Haunted by his Holocaust experiences, he committed suicide in

6. “Heritage”
By Haim Gouri

7. Hayim Gouri: a Hebrew poet, was born in Israel in 1923
Hayim Gouri: a Hebrew poet, was born in Israel in He served in the Palmach, Haganah and Israeli Defense Forces, and after the Second World War was sent to Europe where he visited Displaced Persons’ Camps. His poetry covers a broad range of subjects, some intensely personal, reflecting his experiences during the Second World War and the Israeli War of Independence.
The ram came last of all. And Abraham did not know that it came to answer the boy's question- first of his strength when his day was on the wane. The old man raised his head. Seeing that it was no dream and that the angel stood there - the knife slipped from his hand.
The boy, released from his bonds, saw his father's back.
Isaac, as the story goes, was not sacrificed. He lived for many years, saw what pleasure had to offer until his eyesight dimmed.
But he bequeathed that hour to his offspring. They are born with a knife in their hearts.

8. “Psalm”
By Paul Celan

9. Noone kneads us again from earth and loam, noone evokes our dust. Noone.
Praised be you, noone. Because of you we wish to bloom. Against you.
A nothing were we, are we, will we be, blossoming: the nothing's-, the noonesrose.
With its pistil soulbright, its stamen heavencrazed, its crown red from the purpleword that we sang over, o over its thorn.
Paul Celan: Celan was born in Czernowitz, Bukovina in In Celan saw his parents deported to Auschwitz. He survived the Shoah in other camps but never recovered from his ordeal and in 1970 committed suicide. Celan’s highly acclaimed work is powerful, highly original, often ambiguous and deeply tragic.

10. “Written in Pencil in the Sealed Freightcar”
By Dan Pagis

11. Here in this carload I am Eve With my son Abel If you see my older boy Cain son of Adam Tell him that I...
Dan Pagis: Pagis was Hebrew writer, born in Bukovina in His early years were spent in a concentration camp in the Ukraine from where he escaped. He settled in Israel in 1946 and taught medieval Hebrew literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He became one of the most vibrant voices in modern Israeli poetry. His references to the Holocaust are sometimes oblique and filtered through his use of biblical or mystical images. He died in 1986.

12. “First They Came for the Jews”
By Martin Neimoller

13. Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
First they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Martin Niemöller: Niemöller was a German pastor and theologian, born in Germany in Originally a supporter of Hitler’s policies, he eventually opposed them. He was arrested and eventually confined in the concentration Sachsenhausen and Dachau camps. He was liberated by the allies in 1945 and continued his career in Germany as a clergyman and as a noted pacifist.

14. “The Butterfly”
Paul Friedman

15. The last, the very last, So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow
The last, the very last, So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow. Perhaps if the sun's tears would sing against a white stone Such, such a yellow Is carried lightly 'way up high. It went away I'm sure because it wished to kiss the world good-bye. For seven weeks I've lived in here, Penned up inside this ghetto. But I have found what I love here. The dandelions call to me And the white chestnut branches in the court. Only I never saw another butterfly. That butterfly was the last one. Butterflies don't live in here, in the ghetto.
Pavel Friedman: Friedman was a young poet, who lived in the Theresienstadt Ghetto. Little is know of the author, but he is presumed to have been 17 years old when he wrote “The Butterfly”. It was found amongst a hidden cache of children’s work recovered at the end of the Second World War. He was eventually deported to Auschwitz where he died on September 29, 1944.

16. Can you guess the artist?