Fiche space and exchanges

I. Native American, the spirit of the frontier

- John Gast, painting, title, 1872

 American expansion of the west + manifest destiny

- Woman :

 Blond, white, floating

 Book = enlightenment, knowledge

 Stars = American flag

 Goddess Colombia

- Movement :

 Right to left = westward mvmt

- Nature :

 Wolves

 Native

 Bison

 Fleeing settlers

- Foreground :

 Miners : guns, pickaxe, horse = making t sway across the plain

 Farmer : ploughing fields with ox

- Meaning :

 Show progress transport system

- Sky :

 Brighter east = early morning = birth of the nation

 Dark west = threating thunderclouds = danger

Bilan :

 Idealistic representation of manifest destiny doctrine

 Justify the conquest for “god’s will”

II. Pilgrims

- Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, the first thanksgiving, 1621

 Honour of NA tribe and colonist

- Thanksgiving :

 Thanks god for overcoming difficulties

- NA helped :

 P not familiar with environment : what here , what eat

 NA : corn, squash, potatoes / hunt, fish grown vegetables

- TH :

 grateful for helping

 friendship/ brotherhoods

- atmosphere :

 peaceful, joyful, relaxing

 myth = perfect harmony

- unequally represented :

 thatched roof house = symbol European civilization, progress

 Europeans : more dressed / N: feathered headdressed and blanked

 Sit : chair/floor

 Arms = domination (kill if bad)

 P superior /=/ myth

- Link with notion :

 Rejected, travel, unknow land + discover

 Meeting of new civilization

 Exchanges of knowledge

III. USA Mexican

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