The Dove of Peace: Art Movements and Visual Re-Thinking
This post is a continuation of my effort to shed more light on the Art-for-Peace Handbook, a project which I had a pleasure of collaborating on with two peace enthusiasts Olesya Geraschenko and Olga Zeleniuk. As I said in one of the previous posts , my job, among other tasks, was to develop visual artistic exercises, which would allow the readers/creators to connect in practical ways the discussions on peace, visual art and visual art for peace. Besides a re-make of Picasso’s “Guernica” and a number of other exercises, I developed an activity based on the image of dove of peace. The activity presents eight versions of the dove of peace, all in the styles of different art movements. They are preseted below. Perhaps, an explanation of the doves in symbolism and minimalism would benefit the readers. A symbol of the dove as a symbol of peace, I thought, would be the olive branch. As for the minimalistic version, no dove is needed in the picture itself - the traces are enough. Those workin