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Background • Took place in Cambodia• Khmer Rouge took over the government • Wanted to make Cambodia an agrarian society• 1975-1978• Khmer made the people work till death and killed mass amounts of people• Khmer lead by Pol Pot• Targeted anybody in urban areas, left rural people mostly alone
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Selected Art • Artist: Vann Nath• Title: Artist in His Cell• Survivor of the Khmer Rouge prison S-21• Lived because he was a talented artist
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Artist is His Cell • Painted in 1980 a year after the Khmer Rouge ended• Made in Cambodia • Created to show the torture he endured at S-21, the secret prison the
Khmer • Helped raise awareness to how truly horrific it was• Shows a portrait of him in his cell during his torture • Nath has painted numerous more paintings showcasing terrible events
committed by the Khmer Rouge
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Visual Imagery in Artist is His Cell
• The extremely thin arms, legs, and ribs • The visual imagery shows the awful conditions he had to suffer in
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Imagery in Night• “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me” (Wiesel
115). • Visual imagery shows how tortured and beat-up he was in the terrible
conditions
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Imagery Comparison • Both symbolize torture and terrible conditions• Both show people who were in awful health and barely alive• Both help to realize the depressed and awful tone
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Motif In Artist is His Cell• Hunger• Displayed by his poor health and tiny cell
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Motif In Night• Hunger• “I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach. The
stomach alone was measuring time” (Wiesel 52).
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Motif Comparison • Both show the hunger the survivors had• Both were in a prison • Both create a tone of desperation• Hunger is a common motif in all genocides and used a tool for controlling
people
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Works Cited
Nath, Vann. Artist in His Cell. 1980. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
Wiesel, Elie Wiesel. Night. N.p.: Hill and Wang, 2006. Print.
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Background • Took place in Cambodia• Khmer Rouge took over the government • Wanted to make Cambodia an agrarian society• 1975-1978• Khmer made the people work till death and killed mass amounts of people• Khmer lead by Pol Pot• Targeted anybody in urban areas, left rural people mostly alone
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Selected Art • Artist: Vann Nath• Title: Artist in His Cell• Survivor of the Khmer Rouge prison S-21• Lived because he was a talented artist
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Artist is His Cell • Painted in 1980 a year after the Khmer Rouge ended• Made in Cambodia • Created to show the torture he endured at S-21, the secret prison the
Khmer • Helped raise awareness to how truly horrific it was• Shows a portrait of him in his cell during his torture • Nath has painted numerous more paintings showcasing terrible events
committed by the Khmer Rouge
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Visual Imagery in Artist is His Cell
• The extremely thin arms, legs, and ribs • The visual imagery shows the awful conditions he had to suffer in
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Imagery in Night• “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me” (Wiesel
115). • Visual imagery shows how tortured and beat-up he was in the terrible
conditions
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Imagery Comparison • Both symbolize torture and terrible conditions• Both show people who were in awful health and barely alive• Both help to realize the depressed and awful tone
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Motif In Artist is His Cell• Hunger• Displayed by his poor health and tiny cell
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Motif In Night• Hunger• “I was nothing but a body. Perhaps even less: a famished stomach. The
stomach alone was measuring time” (Wiesel 52).
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Motif Comparison • Both show the hunger the survivors had• Both were in a prison • Both create a tone of desperation• Hunger is a common motif in all genocides and used a tool for controlling
people
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Works Cited
Nath, Vann. Artist in His Cell. 1980. Oil on canvas. Private collection.
Wiesel, Elie Wiesel. Night. N.p.: Hill and Wang, 2006. Print.