Utopia and Dystopia

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How do the cultures of the Navajos , Balinese Wayang Style Painting , Japanese and Manga (art example : Astro Boy poster 1963 represent their ideas of utopia and dystopia ? Differences and Similarities between them

Utopia is an ideology of an ideal society and dystopia is an imaginary place or state in which the condition of life is extremely bad , as from deprivation , oppression , or terror

The sand paintings of the Navajos are traditional healing therapies for people . They are symbolic depictions of Indian Gods and Spirits The holy

gods are the focus of the Navajos sand paintings . They represent their ideas of Utopia through harmony of earthy colours and symbolism of gods who they believe would heal any one in pain . This is a ritualistic ideology of Utopia . The process of this type of painting involves piety and special hand technique to make the forms on the ground with dry powders of coloured stones . Once the healing process is over these paintings are supposed to be destroyed

The Balinese Wayang Style Paintings belong to the 13 century . They are pictorial stories from the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana of Hindu religion . The stories of demons and deities are shown with beautiful forms and figures in bright colours . These paintings show good and the bad at war . Utopia is represented by them in the victory of good over evil in the vibrant forms of gods overpowering demons in the war of truth

Japanese and Manga Art , example , Poster of Astro Boy...