ART 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Qin Dynasty, Signify, Jacob Lawrence
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Nationalism is the belief that people who share the same language, historic experience, and very often ethnic identity make up a nation. Nationalism was closely tied to the idea of throwing off the yolk of monarchs and rulers. Example: one of the great artistic expressions of nationalism is delacroix"s liberty leading the. People, which represents the french people rallying together to overthrow the restored. Various classes and ages are represented in this painting. Delacroix does not idealize liberty, as was customary; she bares her breast to signify that liberty nourishes the people. the new french ruler didn"t like this painting because it celebrates a successful popular uprising. (slide 3) In asia, nationalist sentiment had been long established, stretching back to the qin dynasty in china. After the mongols conquered the chinese in the 13th century, a symbolic vocabulary of resistance arose. Japan also protected its sense of national identity by allowing foreigners very limited access to its country.
