o encapsulate her face, but also used many little squares of various colors to blur her image. Jean resembles traditional art by making the center square a focal point. Again mixing the old with a new twist. Thematically it represents to me a person with several different faces each with different personality within one formed entity. Jean’s Mona Lisa breaks down the cultural barriers that separate different cultures of today. Perhaps each square represents one or many different cultures striving for completeness and unity, which is represented by the middle image, which could be another translation. Politically it represents freedom of choice and democracy, which has come a long way since early 1900’s. Each person in the image has their own opinion and when each opinion is combined and agreed upon then the real power lies within numbers. Which is how are political structure is structured. One person chosen by election to represent the majority.Another artist of the postmodern era is a poet name Octavio Paz born in 1914-1999 in Mexico. Paz along with many others believed that language could make oneself be very expressive. His poem called “To Talk” expresses the feeling that mortal man has special powers that no other being even the gods do not possess. If this poem was written back in the medieval or early times Paz would have been persecuted by the church. Due to the separation of the church and state Paz and his poem will go unharmed. Politically poems with such content cause no harm because there is no direct attack on any religion or groups of people. Paz was correct to state that it is human to speak, because speech separates us from the animal kingdom. Without speech today, we would not be able to communicate with another human. Speech is a divine power because it allows us to break down cultural barriers, by having the ability to share and explain thoughts and feelings to another.The post...
