R237 – Disharmony in Harmony

This painting represents my perspective of how religions were viewed and perceived during the Holocaust. When I made this painting I was inspired by different religions like Judaism, Christianity, Islam. I love and I respect all religions. In this painting, I wanted to point out the religious intolerance between the Holocaust and the chaos of those times. I made it abstract and symbolic, because I wanted to represent the sadness and the monochrome music from a horn. The eye is the world that cries because the religions are treated with no respect. And those people in the down have two faces: one of them is the free person and also the spirit of religions and peace, and the other one stands for the Jews who are crying and suffering. The sea represents the infinity and the horizon of hope, the willow represents the sadness and the temple the home of three religions: Buddhism, Christianity and Judaism.

School: COLEGIUL NATIONAL DE ARTA "OCTAV BANCILA" IASI

Teacher: Mihaela-Alina Chiribau Albu

Grade: 7th grade

Location: Iasi, Romania