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Video: Prayer for Japan. Humanitarian aid art
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In the East, they believe that a dragon sleeps deep underground - and when it moves, houses collapse and tsunami waves rise to the sky. Over the past week, the dragon has killed 13,000 people in Japan, and the mournful list continues to grow. Those who survived are trying to help other countries, organizations and ordinary people - with medicines, food, clothing, money. And the artists also use a brush. In this review - world contribution to the relief of the victims of the Japanese earthquake from the people of the arts, humanitarian aid with paintings, posters and slogans.
Broken sun
Not all works in this review will be signed, and not all artists consider it necessary and possible to designate their authorship - do they draw these graphic calls for help from Japan for the sake of prestige? One of the leitmotifs of posters in support of fundraising campaigns "Help Japan" is an flag of Japan. The red sun, crumbling and cracking, is a very strong sign expressing horror and confusion: such a terrible blow has been inflicted on such a powerful and highly developed country …
The symbol of the Rising Sun is also used by artists to highlight a certain aspect of the disaster. So, the flag of Japan flowing into a heart-shaped flask denotes need for donor blood; and the newly broken red circle, collected by children's hands, is a metaphor rebuilding the country after the cataclysm.
Cranes
The most impressive are posters that use traditional Japanese imagery, such as paper cranes. Who doesn't know these origami birds that can bring good luck? But they are powerless to ward off the misfortune - that is why they look so sadly from the pictures.
We are with you
Thousands of pictures of Japanese events have gone on sale on many visual art sites. This is not an attempt to cash in on the grief - in this way, money is collected to help the victims of the earthquake.
This picture, depicting an open and inevitably falling book, perfectly conveys the horror and confusion - the emotions that gripped 15-year-old photo artist from China Diana Guo (also known as Pink-Promise) after the news of the Japanese tragedy. Relations between China and Japan are very complicated, muddied by rivers of blood and centuries of violent enmity - all the more praiseworthy sensitive heart the author of the photo, which is now raising funds in support of the Japanese victims.
Even if in China people sympathize and try to help the Japanese, representatives of other countries are even less lagging behind. It was after the disaster that it was discovered that border differences between Russia and Japan are not so significant: now Russian rescuers are working on the rubble, planes are sent with humanitarian aid, and the Russian government is ready to provide any support to its neighbors, in particular with the elimination of the consequences of the radiation leak at the Fukushima station. It is a pity that such a terrible tragedy became the reason for the manifestation of good feelings.
Despite the fact that the disaster is not over yet, and Japan still has to fight the radiation leak with the support of the whole world, the country's reconstruction has already begun. And if the human losses are irreplaceable, then there is no doubt about the quick restoration of the economy of the hardworking and talented Japanese people. But even such a strong country sometimes needs the help of the whole world - and the posters collected here speak of solidarity of all mankind in the face of adversity.
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