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AXE 5: Fictions et réalités

MISSION 1: GROUP WORK: COMMENT ON A POLITICAL CARTOON by OLLE, a Swedish cartoonist, 2011

1. Make a full description of what you can see.

2. Comment on the speech bubble.

3. What does this American woman embody?

4. What is the cartoonist's goal?

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ANALYSER UN DOCUMENT ICONOGRAPHIQUE

MISSION 2: Look at documents 1 and 2 below and be ready to describe each of them.

Collect visual elements and try to explain what they symbolize
Now focus on the writing on each poster and explain what it refers to.
What strikes you most in the composition of these documents? What do they have in common? What is their goal?

Doc 1: God saves and Satan invests, Shepard Fairey, 2013

Doc 2: Act, Koy Suntichotinum, 2018

MISSION 3: Read and comment on the article: "God saves and Satan invests".

What do you know about Sheperd Fairey? Make research (on the blog)
Read and summarize Shepard Fairey’s point.
Explain what the no-fly list means.
Say whether Sheperd’s opinion is convincing?

God Saves & Satan Invests (NRA) - Obey Giant

June 16, 2016 Gun control should ALWAYS be a topic of conversation in this country. Over 33,000 people per year lose their lives from guns, and I attribute this to an American gun culture that ...

https://obeygiant.com/god-saves-satan-invests-nra/

About Shepard Fairey Biography

Shepard Fairey Pictures Frank "" is a very famous graphic artist, muralist, and overall artist. He was born on February 15, 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina in the United States. In 1988, the ...

http://www.streetartbio.com/shepard-fairey

Learn about Shepard Fairey

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MISSION 4: Watch the video below

Summarize what you have understood in English

Do you find it convincing?

Doc 3: Evan, Sandy Hook promise

FEED 1: GUNS IN HISTORY AND US LAW

Look at the 3 following documents and recap what you have understood about the American constitution and the NRA.

Document 1: The 2nde Amendment of the US Constitution.

Document 2: What is the 2nd Amendment?

Document 3: Learn about the NRA

THE PARKLAND SHOOTING

Background information

Following a shootout at a school in Parkland, Florida (February 14, 2018), youth organized a movement and protests for increased gun control in the United States on March 24, 2018. These Parades were called March For Our Lives and brought together more than a million people. The most important took place in Washington DC and one of the spokespersons was Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of the Parkland killings.

Télécharger 1 Gun in HISTORY and US LAW

How Parkland Students Are Taking on Politicians in the Gun Control Battle

It's lunchtime on a Tuesday, and the kids are piling into a pizzeria booth in Coral Springs, Fla., to plot a revolution. "The adults know that we're cleaning up their mess," says Cameron Kasky, an ...

https://time.com/longform/never-again-movement/

FEED 2: Ice-T Time

Is owning a gun a non-negotiable right?

Télécharger 1 FEED 2 ICE-T worksheet

Ice-T in Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, 2014

Ice-T during a concert in the 1990's

Who’s the man in both pictures? What do you know about him?
Watch the video “Carrying arms to fight against tyranny” and take notes.
Focus on Ice-T’s body language. What mood is he in? (sad, determined, hesitant…)
Do you think the guest is FOR or AGAINST the right to carry arms?
Which of these words does he use to justify his point of view?

UNCONSTITUTIONAL / PROTECT YOURSELF / ANTI-GUNS / LEGAL

TRAINING TASK (150 words)

You work as a journalist for an American newspaper and you followed Ice-T’s interview on Guru-Murthy’s show. Write an article to report and summarize the star’s opinion about guns.

HOW TO..

Report someone else’s words :

The journalist asked him if… = Le journaliste lui a demandé si…
He answered that… = Il a répondu que…
He argued that … = Il a soutenu que …
He said that … = Il a dit que …
He explained that … = Il a expliqué que …
The journalist told the interviewee that… = Le journaliste a dit à l’invité que…

Background information

The shooting of Aurora (a suburban Denver town, hence the name of Denver Shooting) took place in a movie theater on the night of July 19 to 20, 2012. The gunman killed 12 people and wounded 70. The journalist mentions this event earlier in the interview.

THE DENVER SHOOTING

FEED 3: GUN ART

Does Art play a role in public debate?

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Gun Country, Michael Murphy, 2014

Mission 1: Do research on Michael Murphy

The anamorphic sculptures by artist Michael Murphy | Collater.al

Michael Murphy is an American artist known for his anamorphic sculptures and for the Perceptual Shift series of three-dimensional installations. Michael Murphy is an American artist who lives and ...

https://www.collater.al/en/anamorphic-sculptures-michael-murphy/

Perceptual Art

Online portfolio featuring the work of sculptor Michael Murphy

https://www.perceptualart.com/portfolio.html

Mission 2:

Read the following article and collect information about Michael Murphy’s piece of art.

What is the artist’s goal?

Gun Country: A Map Of The USA Consisting Of 150 Toy Guns

Conceptual artist Michael Murphy recently created a controversial installation called Gun Country, which creates a map of the contiguous United States consisting of 150 toy guns. The plastic guns ...

https://www.boredpanda.com/gun-country-installation-usa-map-michael-murphy/

Gun Country, 2014

EXTRA READING

1200 Black Ping Pong Balls Form a Deadly Assault Rifle

For one to truly appreciate this new installation by artist Michael Murphy, one must view it from a specific angle. Called , the sculptural work consists of a sea of 1,200 ping pong balls, painted ...

https://mymodernmet.com/michael-murphy-damage-ping-pong-balls-gun/

Mission 3: Read about Andy Warhol’s painting entitled Gun and find out why Andy Warhol decided to paint this Gun?

Gun, Andy Warhol, 1981

'Gun', Andy Warhol, 1981 | Tate

Medium Acrylic paint and silkscreen on 2 canvases Dimensions Support, each: 1782 x 2286 x 40 mm Collection ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland Death emerged as a distinctive theme ...

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/warhol-gun-ar00231

On your OWN: Watch the following video

HOMEWORK: Learn more about Valerie Solanas and recap what you have understood.

Valerie Solanas

Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 - April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist and author best known for writing the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published in 1967, and attempting to ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Solanas

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VIDEO: GUNS WITH HISTORY

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