Hello. I wanted to talk you through your Art and Propaganda
assignment. So let me go to your page
And here you can visit the Getty Center, the Norton Simon,
the Broad, MOCA, LACMA. You could also go to Huntington Museum
Any major museum. And you must go in person.
You can check it out online first, but you should go in person. Bring this
Museum paper guidelines with you, because you don't want to miss details and have to go back.
So old propaganda. So in the museum
You're gonna find something that is at least 200 years old, or more.
It can be something that aggrandizes a ruler,
Or makes them seem more than they are, it can have something to
do with politics, it can be an advertisement,
Something about war..."war is good," "War is bad," right?
So negative or positive. This could be incredibly powerful
Portrait busts of rulers
it could also be big paintings of rulers
Making them look particularly important. SO let's look at
something that immediately when I think of important
Rulers, I think of....
let me see...Napoleon.
And so here's one by
Jacques Louis David, which is most certainly in your book,
And here's another one by Ingres. And both are of Napoleon.
And here he's being shown larger than life, charging over the Alps,
And here he is
almost godlike, on a throne, as Jesus has been
Depicted enthroned with the symbols of power; scepters and crowns and things. And actually here he's 
an emperor, with 
Golden laurel crown. Because remember, he did not want to be king, he crowned himself
Emperor of France, and wanted to 
Reinstate the Roman Empire, except it would be the French Empire
with him in charge. SO that's properly
agrandizing. So this would be something that you could find, obviously not these famous examples
But in a museum. Or something where somebody is, you know,
built up in an incredible way. And you would have to talk about Napoleon, 
And who he is, and his history, and the artist that created
the work, and any scholarly work
and writings talking about that.
And you would only choose one. So that's one from the museum. So say I chose this one.
Oh my goodness, he's larger than life, he's incredible, he's stoic, 
He's serious, he's powerful. And then
and see all I did was Google
"Propaganda art." I got this really funny
Cartoon poster image of...who's that? 
Adolf Hitler! "Let's catch him with his panzers down!" You know
Panzers were tanks during World War II, but here they're using it as a joke.
So this would be a great compare/contrast, because instead of finding
Something that's aggrandizing, you're finding something that's
you know...an image of someone who's terrifying, and the 
Technique is to being them down to earth, and make them seem ridiculous and silly
So you could do...if you couldn't find information about the artist
Who particularly did this work, you could find
articles that talked about satirical wartime posters.
And how do you do that?
You go :Oviatt Library
OK...so here we are
And Databases. So this is where you're going to find scholarly
articles that you will use throughout your college career, and you don't
Access these if you're not a student anymore. These are all pay sites
that you can access free as a student at CSUN.
I also have a virus on my computer...Ok.
SO you can browse these online databases by subject,
You could find it this way, or you could do it by name. Say
you knew you were looking for JSTOR. J..S..T..O..R, which is your "go-to"
Art history site, OK?
But let's just for giggles look at "art." And these are the most useful
For you, and if you have any troubles, go see Nancy Young and she can direct you
in the right...direction. Art full text
So this is publications and abstracts, so you might want to look here
Art Index. Artstor is mostly extreme
Close ups of artworks, which is fun if you love Northern artwork
and Jan Van Eyck in particular,
So let me show you what I mean...
So you love Jan Van Eyck
And you want to see an extreme close up of one of his very
detailed works, you look on Artstor
And this is just for goofing around, but it's really fun. You see the plus minus here?
So you can zoom in
Zoom in, back to results..oh!
And keep zooming in on any detail
You want. So what is that in that niche over there? My goodness,
it's another statue of the Madonna and Child with two candles
And look at the tracery here, look at the little trefoil design.
It's fantastic. Now let's get to the meat and potatoes, shall we?
So let's get out of Artstor
Golly, it's hard to get out of Artstor
and....keep moving on...you could also use Oxford Art
JSTOR. This is the granddaddy of all
Of them. JSTOR. So you do
propoganda
Art world war II...and we're just going to see what happens
Films...
Let's see...propaganda
Cultural history...posters! See? You could start
hitting interesting things in JSTOR.
And it's really up to you what you find. You could also say:
"propaganda art and satire," or "funny"
Start using keywords, and see what you find.
And it's really
Up to you. Let's get back out
and see
Oxford Art
Hmm. Okay. See?
So you could find something
For your sources. Now when I talked about your assignment
and we used
Ingres' Napoleon, and we had
The silly Hitler one as
its counterpart, you could also find this Napoleon at the
Museum and do something that's aggrandizing 
of a ruler of the last 200 years. So you don't have to
Go serious to funny. Your thread
through the two images could be "aggrandizing and aggrandizing."
Your thread could be about power, or being depicted as incredibly powerful.
So I just chose the counterpoint because you can
Do that. You can have your thread be powerful
and then powerless.
Whoops.
So
You can chose things...look, you can choose things that also showed
Him as...a poster that showed Germany as
incredible and godlike
So you can choose power and power, you can choose
something where it says that war
Is terrible that you find at the museum. Something about the horrors of war
you could also do that. So what you do is you're just looking
For a through-line.
Something that shows, say the propaganda
Was about food being plentiful. And so you
find something at the museum about a family 
Eating food during wartime, or
gosh, what could we think of...
Propaganda of healthy, well-fed soldiers. And then you find
something recently. Or you to
Getty Villa, and you see...Augustus
And if you go to the Getty Villa, it's all Ancient Greek and Roman, so what you're
Going to find is portrait busts of rulers.
So yes, you could say
Here, I'm gonna talk about rulers being depicted as
Endlessly youthful, and idealized.
and then, so the propaganda that you would look for in the last
200 years would be of a ruler who looks incredibly young
And is very airbrushed, and looks strong, and mighty and healthy.
Because almost certainly Augustus was not this handsome, and here if you can see
His little forelock is in the shape of a "C"
it was to remind people that he claimed that he was
Related to Venus, the goddess. So he was of divine
lineage, he was the Divine Augustus, and so this was to remind you of the
Little crescent moon pin that she wears in her hair. SO all of this
is propaganda, to remind you of how important he is.
Let's see.
So let's see if we could find something
Showing someone as important
I think it's Lenin
Strong, and they're gonna go to space, and he's got people fighting for him
so this would be...you could compare this with Augustus.
See how quickly that happens? So you'll have to do some
Goofing around on the internet, but I think you'll find themes
let's see...fighting famine by canning food at home. So if you were to
Go from this and try to find something at the museum, it would be about
doing all right and doing your part in wartime.
It's tough to try and find something first and work backward at the
Museum, it's better to go to the museum, find something, figure out what the theme is,
and THEN try and match it to something.
Strong soldiers.
Maybe you could find something of a Greek soldier looking ripped
And people rushing to war
rushing over the battlements, and then you could do
It against this. So I hope this makes your assignment
clearer? That war is awful and that
The Germans were terrible brutes, and that you had
to destroy them. This would be "demonizing the enemy."
Or "Dehumanizing the enemy." And then you could find something at the museum 
against that. So does that make sense? If you have any questions,
Email me, but definitely get
on it, it's coming, but now at least you can
Find your sources on
the Oviatt Library website, and it is
Really helpful. And this is what "scholarly resources" are.
So your sources must be appropriate
Peer-reviewed. You cannot get it from a blog, and obviously not Wikipedia.
So this would be the best place to get it
OK? Does this make sense?
All right. Here we are back home
CSUN. OK, email me with any questions.
But get moving, it's coming up. Okay. Thanks.
