Four Freedoms Essay

The poster that I chose to do my analysis on is by Adam Lewin. His art is advanced and is representative of circulating(prenominal) events. He is an illustrator and an art director. He has studied at the Pratt Institute, the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and New York University (http//www. thoughtsondemocracy. blogspot. com/ 2009). The poster is representational of what is currently happening in American culture today. Lewins poster persuades me non to want to live in the United States bothmore. His poster depicts our freedoms being taken away from us.The independence of Speech vista persuades me non to want to protest. It conveys to me that if we go out into the streets and exercise our freedom of speech we will be gagged and hauled off to remit. The Police in the poster look ominous and colossal, and the protester looks small and meager. The liberty of idolise poster persuades me not to tell anyone what faith I am for fear that I may get killed, for not being t he right religion. The man looks as though he is lying on a gurney and has been shot dead because he was worshiping to the wrong religion.Lewins Freedom From Want reminds me that we should not feed our children McDonalds. Children know what the golden arches mean before they can even read. The fast food industry has made Americans huge. The little male child in the picture has a super-size coke in front of him, and he looks like he is pointing to get some more food, which he clearly does not need. This persuades me that there is no freedom from want because Americans are gluttons. They want as much as they can possibly acquire to fill them up emotionally.Lastly, Freedom From Fear persuades me not to want to break any laws (running a red light, talking on cell phone while driving) big brother is continuously watching us especially at every stop light. On the positive side it might make some muckle feel skilful and might deter a criminal from committing a offense. Lewins and Rockw ells posters look completely opposite from each other. Rockwells poster is indicative of what the batch looked like in the 1940s (wholesome). It seemed to be a more innocent time, but it wasnt. Rockwell was painting an ideal instead of reflecting a reality.Whereas, Lewin is doing the opposite, he is reflecting the reality of the current American way of life. However, there are many similarities between the two pictures. In Rockwells Freedom of Speech painting it looks as though the people in the painting are giving the man respect and listening to what he has to say. However, I read that these men did not agree with what this man was saying. whence, it relates to Lewins poster because both these men are being degraded for speaking their minds. Also both men look like they are from the working class.The religion that I saw represented in Rockwells Freedom of Worship is Christianity. Thus the painting failed to represent multiple religions. This relates to Lewins poster because in m y suasion Lewins poster is suggesting that the man in the picture is dead. This suggests that the predominate religion of the 1940s (Christianity) is dying. practicing one Also people should have the right to practice any religion they want as FDR suggested in his speech. Lewins and Rockwells Freedom FromWant relate because neither of these scenes are lavish and the food seems to be the focal point.Also, the olden woman seems to be the one serving everyone and the boy in the picture is pointing as though he is waiting for someone to serve him or strain him more food. Although these two pictures look completely antithetic they relate to each other in the same way. They both depict safety and security. When I was a little girl my mother use to tuck me into bed every night and this made me feel safe as the mother and father in the Rockwell painting are doing to their children. The man is holding a paper which tells of the horrors going on overseas.They are protecting their children from the evils of the world and easing their young minds. I view that Lewins depiction of the cameras eases the American peoples minds or maybe the powers that be. Surveillance cameras may help catch criminals or even terrorists. The poster, which depicts four develop themes, will be shown to reflect contemporary on a disappoint floorstandings of democracy and the democratic system in operation. The theme in the upper left hand corner under Freedom of Speech depicts a young man being dragged by two police officers.Although our Constitution guarantees freedom of speech, nevertheless the see of this young man portrays what occurred recently when the Wall Street protesters gathered peacefully in front of the New York stock exchange, yet they were arrested and thrown in jail for disturbing the peace. However, what they were actually doing was exercising their first amendment rights of free speech. The second image on the top right hand corner under Freedom of Worship depicts a dea d person. Unfortunately this depiction is very true in todays society. We are constantly informed of suicide bombers in Afghanistan,Pakistan, and Iraq who , in the name of religion, strap bomb belts on themselves and blow themselves up in mosques and other places where their co-religionists ( of different sects) are worshiping. It also suggests to me that the practice of one religion in the United States no longer exists. Since there are people from all over the world living in the United States we have an array of different religions. The third image on the bottom left hand corner under Freedom of Want depicts a young man pointing to a half(a) empty glass. This expresses the current division in contemporaneous society of the haves and the have nots.This young boy seems overweigh and is probably a member of the have nots. I say this because insufficient funds results in poor eating habits, such as overindulgence of processed foods. The final image on the lower right hand corner und er the caption Freedom from Fear depicts an array of surveillance equipment. Thanks to the increased awareness of crime coupled with neo high technology, these surveillance cameras are designed to catch criminals in the act of committing a crime there by resulting in quicker arrests and convictions, and possibly preventing the crime from being committed in the first place.Surveillance cameras which were installed in all entrances to the London underground have effectively prevented a repeat of the 2005 underground bombings. Therefore commuters have no fear using the tube and are thus free from fear, exactly as the artist intended to demonstrate.