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If you consider the number of guns in the USA, there’s a bullet for every man, woman, and child,” the artist David Plunkert says, about his cover, “October 1, 2017: One Day in a Nation of Guns,” which memorializes the victims of shooting in Las Vegas, where a man killed 60 people and injures more than 400.
The names on the cover are those of the victims released by the Clark County, Nevada, Office of the Coroner and Medical Examiner.
artist : unknown, nature of document : poster
description : one human figure running, focus on the shield and the A for America.
stars and stripes, colours of the American flag. Background : soldiers wearing uniforms, barbed wire, no identifiable setting
slogans : “fight” in red letters (red for war, blood, violence, action).
“join the battle for victory” in white letters
Analysis : symbols of the USA, action
No clear context : battle or fight for what aim ? the values of America, the good/right side ?
Title : Shopping Days Author : Eric Drooker Date : Dec 14, 2015
Question : Should weapons be part of normal shopping ?
Keywords : consumerism, gun rights, violence, normality, absurdity
Keywords : Patriotism, the star-spangled banner, racism, police, injustice.
Read the New York Times.
After one more injustice committed by the police, artist P. Mendelsund created this cover showing a broken American flag. The colour blue and the white stars can easily be seen as the flag. The hole could have been caused by a gun shot. Both gun violence and racism were issues in 2015. The United States, and especially places such as Baltimore, have suffered from violence for a long time. The flag can be seen as a metaphor for the whole country, whose social fabric is damaged by all the crimes and the systemic police violence.
Injustice : Baltimore, 2015 by Peter Mendelsund’s
Check the article on this cover here
Peter Mendelsund’s says with humility that pictures cannot fix a broken country.
On April 12, 2015, Baltimore Police Department officers arrested Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African-American resident of Baltimore in Maryland. Gray was injured while he was in a police vehicle and he went into a coma. On April 18, there were protests in front of a district police station. Gray died.
More protests were organized after Gray’s death were known by the public, as the police department could not explain why freddy Gray was injured or why he was arrested. Spontaneous protests started after the funeral service, although several included violent elements.
Norman Percevel Rockwell (February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978) was an American painter and illustrator. His works are popular in the United States because they often symbolise American culture. Rockwell is most famous for the cover illustrations he created for The Saturday Evening Post magazine over nearly five decades. Among the best-known of Rockwell’s works are Rosie the Riveter, The Problem We All Live With, and the Four Freedoms series.
Visit the Norman Rockwell museum
This is a part of a triple self-portrait by the illustrator.
Check out this website, where you can listen to the American national anthem and where you can read the lyrics.
Keywords : Summer, Black people, vacations, portrait, diversity, politics of race, equality, culture, colours of the American flag.
Also read this article about Barack and Michelle Obama’s portraits. Look at this other article from AD.
Read about the history of the flag.
Here are a few of its names :
Its colours mean : courage (red), purity (white), perseverance and justice (blue).
The 13 stripes represent the 13 original colonies. The 50 stars represent the 50 states, which means the number of stars has evolved since its creation.
Freedom of Speech (guaranteed by the First Amendment) means a flag can be desecrated in an open political demonstration. This was ruled by the Supreme Court in 1989.
You may also have a look at this New Yorker cover.
Artist Jasper Johns worked on the American flag. Johns used to work on signs, such as the alphabet and figures. Does this mean he considered the flag to be just as common as a letter or a figure ?
American people display their flag a lot. It may be explained by the fact that it is a nation of immigrants, who are finally very proud of belonging to that nation. Since there never was a monarch, or a state religion, the flag might be seen as THE symbol that people relate to.
This oil on canvas was painted in 1943. Its dimensions are 116cm x90 cm. It is now part of the collections of the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. It is also part of a series entitled ‘The Four Freedom Series’, inspired by a speech by American President Franklin Roosevelt. It was published as the cover of ‘The Saturday Evening Post’, like many of Rockwell’s paintings, who spent most of his career as an illustrator. His works are mostly about American every day life and he contributed in creating the myth of America.
The speech delivered by the American president in 1941 was about the war that America was about to fight to protect democracy and freedom. Therefore, the painting inspired by such a speech two years later can be regarded as a patriotic endeavor to participate in the propaganda effort to create a positive image of America and its values.
The very fact that Norman Rockwell worked after photographs of his fellow citizens enhances the meaning of the painting : any American family gathered around a meal for Thanksgiving could identify with the people in the picture, lifelike icons of simplicity, meekness, love, sharing and unity. By the way, the other title of the painting is ‘The Thanksgiving Picture’.
The origin of the Thanksgiving holiday, created by another President, Abraham Lincoln, after the tragedy of the Civil War to help American people unite after a four years’ war is to be remembered, although the symbols have changed. There is no mention here of the Native Americans or the Pilgrim Fathers, only a meal and a family gathering.
Yet, behind the impression of simplicity, there are also subtle references to the sacred…
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