In 2008, Australian artist Mark Gowing was awarded the Gold Medal for his poster "Oil Kills Peace" at the 20th International Warsaw Poster Biennale in Warsaw, Australia. This piece is composed of a dying peace dove that is falling. The dove is made of a shiny/relfective oil and is rendered with little detail. It is set on a white background. The piece is oriented vertically, the dove also vertical, positioned facing downward. Gowing created this to draw awareness to the negative implications of greed and power in Iraq and in the Middle East regarding control for oil, including recent hostilities. Though the discovery of oil has helped nations in the Middle East achieve social and technological progress, it has also very clearly enabled devastation through greed and abuse of power, such as with Saddam Hussein, squandering money to wage war on neighbors and Syria's Bashar al-Assad waging war and oppression on his own people (5). In the 1930s, oil was found in Saudi Arabia by Standard Oil of California (1). Not only is war involving local areas, but actually bringing in and costing Western power, involvement and lives (1).
on oil and middle east
1. http://jah.oxfordjournals.org/content/99/1/208.full
oil was found in saudi arabia in 1930s by Standard Oil of California
in 1945 Saudi Arabia agreed to supply cheap oil to global markets in exchange for American protection (national security)
America sought to protect Saudi Arabia, not without blood
America invaded in 2003 from terrorist attacks and the fight for oil
oil and war are connected in middle east
american alliance with Persian Gulf has been at odds with Israeli relationship
1973 oil crisis it surfaced
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2. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer171/oil-gulf-war
3. http://www.globalresearch.ca/its-not-just-the-oil-the-middle-east-war-and-the-conquest-of-natural-gas-reserves/5307589
4. http://www.dw.de/isis-oil-and-war/a-17760035
5. http://oilprice.com/Geopolitics/Middle-East/Oil-A-Blessing-And-A-Curse-For-The-Middle-East.html
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