Charles going to buy this one?
That's a little busy, but I like it.
wait till you see my painting of schindler's list!
further proof that matthew kangas is a douche.
Sr project!
NSFW!!!!!
Oh, wait, that's a sword.
disregard
Is that a painting of the hip-hop fans killing people in Capitol Hill?
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!
I think this is hideous.
coca still exists??
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.
it's entirely possible to "get it" and still think it's fugly. these are not mutually exclusive opinions.
I'd say Evergreen State Fair teenager art, but it's missing a few dragons and teardrops.
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?
s this a picture of Barack Obama finishing off Hillary's campaign for President?
That's the last time I'm ever going to Neighbors!
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.
@15
Yes but then it should be entitled
"Unity, Hope, Change and Amity
[Slash, slash, gurgle, gurgle...]"
Hee-haw! Hee-haw!
i thought coca folded? if it didn't perhaps it should!
@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.
wow. what a lame fucking painting.
I'm still trying to figure out what this painting wants to be when it grows up...
I'm wondering why this obviously masculine figure has a pussy, and why he's stabbing it with a sword.
@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.
it looks like he's pulling that sword out of his vagina.
How much do you want to bet that guy drives a Dodge Neon?
@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.
@7--that was actually quite hilarious.
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