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Thread ID: 19919 | Posts: 7 | Started: 2005-08-31
2005-08-31 23:09 | User Profile
:dung: [url]http://www.sos.state.ga.us/black_history/img0027.jpg[/url]
2005-09-01 02:43 | User Profile
Notice the ghostly image of Lincoln, is this a commentary on his whiteness? Or that whitey is dead?
2005-09-01 04:28 | User Profile
Why is a painting of Eddie Murphy looking pensive in front of Abe's statue on the Georgia Secretary of State's website?
2005-09-02 03:27 | User Profile
Now that is just yucky...
2005-09-10 14:32 | User Profile
[IMG]http://img.coxnewsweb.com/B/01/52/21/image_1821521.jpg[/IMG] The sculpture in Freedom Park was created in honor of U.S. Congressman John Lewis by artist Thornton Dial.
Beginning with a bridge
Perhaps that's why Dial knew immediately he wanted to work with the idea of the bridge, as in the Edmund Pettus Bridge. It was the site of a historic 1965 march attended by billy-club-wielding police in which Lewis had shown his mettle and his (literally) hard-headed determination. But that was just the starting point.
The artist then cut, shredded, welded and juxtaposed such things as tires, iron rods, strips of corrugated metal, rags, pipes and decorative wrought iron to create the people, landscape and cars that inhabit the sculpture. Lewis is the metal stick figure marching over the bridge. Silhouettes and sculptures that make use of shredded tire treads suggest a field of crops and a mule on the left side. City streetlights and some scary-looking folks with guns ââ¬â all abstracted but legible ââ¬â lurk on the other side.
I wonder how much they paid for this crap?
2005-09-10 15:47 | User Profile
That is ugly. :frown: But then that is why it is representational of contemporary times. :sad:
2005-09-10 18:47 | User Profile
Sertorius,
Yes that is ugly.