{"id":640,"date":"2021-03-08T01:19:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T06:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/?p=640"},"modified":"2021-03-11T22:19:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T03:19:21","slug":"the-hiroshima-panels-iii-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diluo.digital.conncoll.edu\/Asianart\/image\/the-hiroshima-panels-iii-water\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hiroshima Panels “III Water”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The Hiroshima Panels are a series of paintings done by Iri and Toshi Maruki, after the bombings on Nagasaki and Hiroshima by The U.S. in 1945 during WWII. The paintings reflect the disaster and fallout in Japan, and the entire world after the massacre.

This specific painting titled “Water” is the third in the series. It depicts naked bodies piled up on either side of the panel with the majority being on the left. Although the bodies are more sketch-like, there is intense detail and emotion shown in the faces of the figures. In the middle of the piece, there is a woman, with her child in her arms. The description of the piece states that this is a “twentieth-centruy image of madonna and child: an injured mother cradling her dead infant.” Further, the description says that after the bomb dropped, people were screaming for water, hence the title of the painting. In usual circumstances a mother and child is a symbol of hope (as stated in the description), however, due to the mass distruction, humanity and mortality has set in distorting that symbol into a message of death.
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Title of piece: Water<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artists: Iri and Toshi Maruki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Date Painted: 1950<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medium: Sumi ink, charcoal or cont\u00e9 on paper<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dimensions: 180 \u00d7 720 cm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Hiroshima Panels (I)-(XIV) are on display permanently at Maruki Gallery<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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