this is a particularly big issue with contemporary artists and the way the view gallery spaces, and why there are so many movements outside of galleries.Not to mention the lack of accessibility that comes with galleries sometimes.

Man this is a really apt description of art. Does life influence art? Does art influence life? It's all just a tool that helps us do a multitude of different things.

I honestly didn't know this either. I thought there was the big plague, lots of people died, and then that was it. No idea that things kept popping up over the course of the 17th century.

I think this is usually what I would imagine art during hard times to look like. I think during a pandemic, especially, art is a good way for people to find different outlets to let out whatever it is their feeling.

I know art gets lost to time (and in this case mostly didn't get made) but it's a shame in a weird way that we don't get to see that. Whoops?

Death as a form of creation?

Goes a bit further back than the scope of my project but still interesting enough for comparison in regard to all pandemic art

Honestly this is so weird but I get it. In the face of turmoil and ugliness, beauty can be found. I think it speaks to his artistic nature to use that juxtaposition to create art he liked even though it cost him his marriage?

I think this is just a good way of describing how we've handled the pandemic so far, honestly.

an interesting look into the way contemporary artists are handling and creating pandemic art

There's probably a commentary here about incel groups too but I just cant think of it.

This in particular reminds me of the Boston Bombing, and how reddit users took it among themselves to find out who did it and instead doxxed the wrong person, who eventually ended up killing himself I believe since the false accusation. Everyone think in these scenarios they're doing it for the cause, and that they're in the right, until someone uninvolved gets accused and ruins their lives. I do think it's tricky though because I do think for like, the people going to Nazi rallies and promoting hateful and toxic content need to recognize there are probably consequences for creating hostility, but where is that line drawn?

I know it says that it's been happening for a while, but doxxing has been a huge part of toxic internet culture for the last 12+ years. Definitely longer than the march in Charlottesville, anyways.

This kind of reminds me about the movie Jim Carey did called "The Truman Show" and it's disturbing to know that it's still happening, years later, as if we didn't learn anything from it

I think that's the horrifyingly interesting thing about using the internet like this, is that it makes it really easy to forget that these are real people that are being documents without permission for the sake of "the feels", as if them living their lives in a way that is appealing to others is permissible to record them.

I personally don't remember being taught much about this, even in the art history classes I took. It seems to get glossed over in a lot of different historical contexts.

much easier for street/graffiti artists to not succumb to art world pressure and can be as satirical/confrontational with their art. Not that gallery pieces can't be, but I think it's more fluid and succinct because it's a different type of medium.

Contemporary pandemic art less about the self/reflections and more about public commentaries about how the pandemic is being treated/handled and who the "heroes" are.

This is upsetting that there's a law about it, but it isn't something that people can be charged with. I don't personally understand the point of creating something that states there are acts of domestic terrorism, and then not taking action against it. There have been a lot of instances in the last 5 years that should be constituted as domestic terrorism and simply aren't. I understand some things might/are charged as hate crimes, but I think it certainly can be both.

I think this is a pretty solid conclusion to this article, and while I agree that there needs to be a lot of checking into your sources to see if they're false or not, or who they're posted by, etc, part of me has to wonder if we could avoid doing this if there wasn't a need for "fake news" or misinformation. Obviously there's always going to be a lot of people out there misinformed, but people wouldn't need to verify their sources if it wasn't such a rampant problem in the first place.

I do agree with him though that people, me included, need to do a better job at vetting the articles and websites they get information from.

Ohh I had forgotten about Brother Bear. But I agree with this sentiment that people of color aren't allowed to "learn moral lessons" in their human forms and I feel like it's ALMOST the subtle way of caling brown people savages still and they only get their bodies back when they learn how to not be that way or whatever.

I recognize there are a lot of movies/tv shows out there that don't do this, but I think it's important to recognize in 2019 they were STILL doing this though. It isn't new, but it certainly is getting old.

Can we talk about how animated films with Black leading characters are always somehow turned into anthropomorphic bodies? Princess and the Frog, Soul, Spies in Disguise, etc.

There's a really solid youtube video that talks about the Atlantic Slave Trade that is relevant. People use the uh, black on black crime the same way people use the "well, black people also sold black people soooo". It's not like white people sit around talking about and demonizing "white people killing white people".

Think about all the mass shooters who were white that weren't vilified.

I think maybe I'm more concerned with Identity than I thought I was. This line stuck out to me a lot, because on an individual level this is okay and I understand loving yourself/being happy with yourself/your journey, but what happens to this when it's collectively challenged by people just like you? Does it invalidate that at all? I'm not totally sure.

This paragraph in particular resonates with me strongly. I've had a lot of moments with other Hispanic people who treated me as an "other" because I wasn't Hispanic enough for them, despite the fact that I grew up with a Hispanic parent and have been to Costa Rica many times and embraced that part of myself. There are a lot of times where it doesn't feel like I'm enough, though.