Look, I do not wish to participate into what would be a ridicilous debate. Fireballs? Here you go: http://www.medalia.net/Artpage/ZepFra2903.html The images we all saw that day marked us for life. You'll find millions of similar images everywhere in the world, drawn, painted, etc by many different people trying to express themselves and how they felt about what they saw. Can you tell me how the person who painted the image posted on that CNN link felt and tried to express? I doubt it. As far as I can tell, it is just a painting. I can't see the "evil" responsible for it. Can you? End of that debate for me.
Don't read so much into it. The guy (or girl) who painted it hates America and is glad it happened. It is what it is. Although after looking at it, they've got the time line all wrong. Maybe they painted it in the order that they saw it on CNN...
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I know this takes a bit of subtlety, but I'm going to at least throw an idea out there, that while b) is probably a dead cert, a) is by no means a given, or at least it doesn't necessarily follow in every instance. That's a distinction we should probably get our heads around.
I don't follow your logic. Are you honestly suggesting that someone could possibly be glad that 9/11 happened and not hate Americans? How in the hell of all hells did you come to this conclusion?
I just didn't see any attempt at symbolism in the mural which would allow me to give the "artist" the benefit of the doubt...
WTF? Is Iraq involve to help Al-Qaeda? http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/26/sprj.irq.mural/index.html
Anyone with the slightest eye for visual art can see the celebratory emotion expressed in this painting. Go take an art appreciation class or visit the Louvre or something.
i'm with michael. i mean no offense to you, Trevor, i just think that the rush to label all and sundry "america haters" is just so much "spin-doctoring" (my apologies to the english language). i hate the fact that kissinger de-facto murdered allende; i hate the fact that reagan called central american serial killers "freedom fighters;" i hate how billy-clinton turned a blithely-blind eye away from the slaughter in rwanda, and practically CELEBRATED kosovo. there are undoubtedly twisted jerks who are glad 9/11 happened. but to chauvinistically pretend that "USA" therefore _necessarily_ means "moral rectitude" is a recipe for catastrophe. specks 'n' planks.... does that make me "hate" my country? nope.
Good call Gringo. I can say that it is in a celabratory nature. The pastel hues in the backround attempt to invoke a feeling of wistfulness. Sick bastards
Ahh good ole pablo picasso. I think one really needs to look at the time period that his work was made in order to understand it. Picasso was an inovator in a time of homogenous art. When Picasso made his art, the world was just coming off the periods of romanticism and impressionism, both styles that relied heavily on clean line, wholesome subjects, and soft colors. Picasso was a reactionary, one that single handidly stirred up the art world. Picasso's Les Demoiselles d' Avingnon of 1907 (not the one pictured here)was one of the worlds first "cubist paintings." That piece served as the bridge between pre modernist and modernist painting. He gave the world pieces like the one gringo posted, and these pieces have multiple interpretations, almost one per viewer. So i can 't tell you what Picasso meant with this one Gringo, but I do know it contains a lot of emotion;emotion that could not be presented in any other medium of painting besides his method of cubism.
Waaaay off. If my memory serves me, this is Vermeer's "Lady Writing a Letter with her Maid" of 1670. This very typical of the baroque/rococo style of painting. Notice the soft compostion, the use of light ect. Vermeer normally painted simple women, often with pious themes. The compostion is interesting. I think Vermeer tries to get the viewers eyes to go across the painting horizontally, back and forth between the women. The rug, i would say, brings the viewer in while the table acts a stop point.