Silencing the Creative Soul

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Banksy/Artworks
Zehra Dogan
Year: March 2018
Location: Houston, and Bowery, New York City, USA

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Banksy/Artworks
Zehra Dogan
Year: March 2018
Location: Houston, and Bowery, New York City, USA
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what is it? A large painting painted by Banksy. There is a photo of Zehra Doan, a Kurdish journalist and artist who is currently in jail. Zehra Doan appears in the artwork behind bars with one hand raised and counting marks on the wall. Which are likely estimates of the number for days she had been held captive.
How Do I know what it is? The largescale mural is in a public space and is recognizable that it's in the street and also most of Banksys work is exterior. Additionally, Banksy posts his artwork on social media.
What meanings and massages does it contain/Convey?
protest Against censorship.
Days in captivity.
Global Awareness
Zehra Doan's unfair arrest is highlighted in Banksy's artwork, which criticizes oppression's tally marks indicate the numbers of days that she spent in the jail. it draws attention to people freedom of speech, expression and tell us that the power of art is to spared the word that people can't say it.
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Denote: Connote:
lady face: Disappointment, sadness and injustice
Pencil: Drawing, writing, making note and tool
bars: Counting marks, jail, days and months.
lettering: Name, Call
Anchorage:
so, the pen and the 4 lines and the Crose line (line could mean two things one of them number and the other is prison bars) to emphasize the Monts, or days that she has spent in jail. The lettering on the rite downside it helps to spread the word to let her free because she just wrote she just critiqued someone within power that could prison her and
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Research:
Banksy is an anonymous person. Also, prominent street artist that has a and political activity. His work carries many social messages some time has political. His art always has stencil in the work he doses and text, and he has gained global recognition for his thought-provoking pieces. 9-“One year ago Zehra Dogan was jailed for painting
this watercolor of a photograph she saw in the newspaper.
Protest against this injustice by re-gramming her painting
and tagging Turkey’s President Erdogan”
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References:
Research:9- Zehra Dogan, March 2018 - Banksy Explained
Banksy. (2007). "Banksy: Wall and Piece." Random House UK.
Banksy's "Zehra Dogan" artwork exemplifies the power of street art to bring attention to important social and political issues, in this case, advocating for the release of an imprisoned artist and journalist.
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