The New Model For Art - 1743 Words

Placing the interests of the entire world above those of an individual nation became the new model for art in the contemporary world and this movement was known as globalism. With the increases in digital technology, global integration of art and culture became significantly easier and more prominent. Although, globalism brought a new knowledge of culture from other nations and allowed certain countries to emerge as super powers not everything was beneficial. Terrorism rocked western civilizations such as Britain and the Unites States with attacks from the extremist group knows as Al-Qaeda that brought a devastating and sense of urgency for moral change through art and literature. Also, the threat of our dying ecosystem was brought up as†¦show more content†¦505). Although terrorism was not developed recently but rather has been around for a while, the rapid and new forms of technology and communication as well as the availability of weapons made the issue more prominent an d devastating. Especially after the devastating 9-11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon. Since then the war on terror has spread too much of the Middle East, and the already tense atmosphere was made worse with Sunni and Shi’ite civil wars, terrorism was a fear that was all too real and possible. With such a devastating lost after 9-11 and over 3000 civilians killed, many artists commemorated those who died in the tragic attack with paintings or eulogies, such as Johns Adams, â€Å"On the Transmigration of Souls†(p.505) or paintings of people leaping to their death just moments before the towers collapsed. It wasn’t until years later where literary reflections of the incident were starting to be created that a stronger voice spoke up regarding what was seen as a moral urgency as terrorist attacks were beginning to occur in other parts of the world and were unfortunately becoming a common thing. Seamus Heaney, an Irish author, wrot e the most controversial piece, called â€Å"The Terrorist, He Watched† after the bombings in London on the metro. Heaney wrote how people go through there everyday life, and talk with friends, go to the restaurants and use public transportation but little do they