Art and Resistance: From Albert Camus to Picasso

Dr. Hadi Murad

Mohammed Barakat

Name: Jaber

Good evening

This is the novel 'Al-Ta'awun'

by Albert Camus

the French-Algerian novel

So what is the relation of this novel

to struggle and resistance

and standing up to Israel

That it is related to an idea you are promoting

on social media platforms

that liberation from mob mentality

as you call it

and death and the culture of death

and the move to art, theatre, and singing

and the love of life between the fangs

comes through abandoning the struggle

This is, unfortunately, completely wrong.

Albert Camus, for example,

was a first-rate activist

This man

was a leading editor at the newspaper Combat

which called on the French to resist

to confront the Nazi occupation

He was a first-rate resistance fighter

Pablo Picasso is one of the greatest painters

in human history

He was immortalized by his painting Guernica

which he painted in homage to the Spanish town

that the Nazis bombed

back then

Pablo Neruda, the people's poet, as he is known

this Chilean genius poet

He wrote many poems

in the struggle of peoples and standing up to

Tyranny and dictatorship

Ludwig van Beethoven, for example

the greatest musician in human history

He had dedicated a symphony

to Napoleon, and when he declared

Napoleon himself emperor

Beethoven tore it up

For this symphony he took a stand

the artist and the scientist

Albert Einstein, for example

Einstein, for his part, was a supporter

of the establishment of the State of Israel at first

but he later opposed its actions

In fact, he stood up to his country

Germany when it moved toward Nazism

and refused to return to it

the scientist, the artist, and the musician

and the singer — history remembers him

for his struggle

not only for his art

Do not mix the culture of life

with a culture of submission

They are two different things