Collected Item: “Quarantine leaves us incomplete”
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Quarantine leaves us incomplete
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Quarantine was a hard time on us all; it hit most of us out of nowhere and left us locked inside our homes for what an eternity and for most people, they had to spend that time alone. I did not go out a lot during this time so I went online and chose the pictures that I believe best represent what mine and many others felt their quarantine was like. Jose’ Manuel Ballester, a Spanish artist recreated iconic historical paintings and removed the most pivotal part in each of them; the people. Dubbed “Hidden Spaces”, Ballester recreates a series of works in which he is able to present an angle of how the world is like during quarantine. Iconic masterpieces like the Last Supper is left to just an empty table. Ballester is able to show the loneliness and emptiness that quarantine has left people in, by removing the people from the paintings Ballester thus leaving the audience with a certain feeling of discomfort reminiscent of the lack of company and interaction leaves us feeling when we are quarantined and I really resonated with these photos because that is how I felt during this quarantine.
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picture (painting)
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Jose Manuel Ballester
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Jose Manuel Ballester
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https://www.sadanduseless.com/art-without-people/
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CUNY, Bronx Community College
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2021-05-18
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undergrad majoring in Criminal Justice
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HIS 20 Professor Culkin
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