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1

Charles going to buy this one?

Posted by Mr Clean | February 19, 2008 12:34 PM
2

That's a little busy, but I like it.

Posted by Mr. Poe | February 19, 2008 12:37 PM
3

wait till you see my painting of schindler's list!

Posted by yah | February 19, 2008 12:38 PM
4

further proof that matthew kangas is a douche.

Posted by and | February 19, 2008 12:46 PM
5

Sr project!

Posted by johnnie | February 19, 2008 12:56 PM
6

NSFW!!!!!

Oh, wait, that's a sword.

disregard

Posted by Paulus | February 19, 2008 12:56 PM
7

Is that a painting of the hip-hop fans killing people in Capitol Hill?

Posted by Chris | February 19, 2008 1:12 PM
8

I was just making this comment to a friend earlier, "Why can galleries only show 'black' art during February?!" The notable exception was Rashid Johnson's show at James Harris!

Posted by Black History Month | February 19, 2008 1:17 PM
9

I think this is hideous.

Posted by Aislinn | February 19, 2008 1:18 PM
10

coca still exists??

Posted by whuh? | February 19, 2008 1:23 PM
11

Can't tell if Sloggers are really getting it and just blase, or not. So sorry if you already got all this:

The scene is definitely Oak Alley plantation just upriver from New Orleans, the most plantation-y plantation of them all, which is why it's always used in movies about the Old South.

Here we see an African (not allowed to be a citizen yet so I won't say "African American") with a weapon and a nearby white dude who appears to be injured.

Amistad, Spanish for "friendship" and the name of a famous slave ship (that landed in CT and was the subject of a court case resulting in freedom for the enslaved persons, with the help of that horrible other dynasty family we had in the USA the Adamses).

The African fellow is surrounded by images which could be his thoughts including an enslaved person wearing the very horrible neck collar and other instruments of enslavement. There are also stars which perhaps include the North Star (or do the two stars on the side of a dipper point to it? can't recall) anyway stars in general could symbolize what you look to to figure out which way is north to go north to freedom.

The shack structure could be a slave shack (I'd prefer to call it the shacck enslavers built for the enslaved).

Thus "Amistad" = ironic.

Posted by unPC | February 19, 2008 1:31 PM
12

it's entirely possible to "get it" and still think it's fugly. these are not mutually exclusive opinions.

Posted by brandon | February 19, 2008 1:38 PM
13

I'd say Evergreen State Fair teenager art, but it's missing a few dragons and teardrops.

Posted by The Dream | February 19, 2008 1:40 PM
14

I'm having trouble figuring out why the guy's knife seems to be pointed directly at his own crotch. Maybe it looks better in a bigger format, who knows?

Posted by Nora | February 19, 2008 1:42 PM
15

s this a picture of Barack Obama finishing off Hillary's campaign for President?

Posted by whatwhat | February 19, 2008 1:45 PM
16

That's the last time I'm ever going to Neighbors!

Posted by groaner | February 19, 2008 1:49 PM
17

unPC, I can see why you might think something being ironic automatically earns points with the general Stranger readership, but in this case it has no bearing on how aesthetically unappealing this painting is.

Posted by Aislinn | February 19, 2008 1:57 PM
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@15

Yes but then it should be entitled
"Unity, Hope, Change and Amity
[Slash, slash, gurgle, gurgle...]"

Hee-haw! Hee-haw!

Posted by unPC | February 19, 2008 2:00 PM
19

i thought coca folded? if it didn't perhaps it should!

Posted by ym | February 19, 2008 2:20 PM
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@17:
[warning: non-ironic response:]
i don't think this is a good piece of art. nor did i say it was.


if you want *good* art on this subject check out Kara Walker.

Posted by unPC | February 19, 2008 2:22 PM
21

wow. what a lame fucking painting.

Posted by nipper | February 19, 2008 2:29 PM
22

I'm still trying to figure out what this painting wants to be when it grows up...

Posted by michael strangeways | February 19, 2008 2:51 PM
23

I'm wondering why this obviously masculine figure has a pussy, and why he's stabbing it with a sword.

Posted by Fnarf | February 19, 2008 3:10 PM
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@11 - and, yet, the leader of the revolt on the Amistad had owned slaves himself, and did after he was repatriated to Africa.

Things aren't always as clear as we think.

It's not that great a painting.

Posted by Will in Seattle | February 19, 2008 3:50 PM
25

it looks like he's pulling that sword out of his vagina.

Posted by max solomon | February 19, 2008 4:08 PM
26

How much do you want to bet that guy drives a Dodge Neon?

Posted by dude man | February 19, 2008 5:17 PM
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@23 - Don't know if the artists intentions go beyond the obvious, but it made me think of the sexual violence going on in the DRC and other countries in west Africa right now.

Posted by kate | February 19, 2008 6:14 PM
28

@7--that was actually quite hilarious.

Posted by croydonfacelift | February 20, 2008 12:12 AM

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