Sylvia Bueltel, like a lot of Americans, found herself out of work and glued to the news as the grim reality of the COVID-19 threat to America sank in earlier this spring. 'Seeing things on Instagram and Twitter and just being completely overwhelmed with all of this information.' The 22-year
Sylvia Bueltel, like a lot of Americans, found herself out of work and glued to the news as the grim reality of the COVID-19 threat to America sank in earlier this spring.
"Something that I've always found interesting is propaganda posters," she said."I researched a lot of the motifs that were used in war-time propaganda, and I found a lot of inspiration in that."She first came upon a World War II-era poster warning of spies in our midst --"Telling a friend may mean telling the enemy" -- and thought of how the virus was spreading in the community, often by people unaware they were contagious.
The fourth painting is a pandemic-themed update to the most ubiquitous war-time propaganda poster in American history: James Montgomery Flagg's iconic"I Want You" World War I recruitment poster. The Uncle Sam in her poster is decidedly gentler and more encouraging than the stern, finger-pointing version of 1917.
Story continues"It's really meaningful to see that people still do find a lot of comfort in art," Bueltel said,"especially in difficult times like these."
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