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Posted on 08/01/2025 11:12:32 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Controversy over an Amy Sherald painting of the Statue of Liberty reveals divides over US national symbols, joining debates that have centred on the statue since it was first unveiled. So fixed is our focus on the radiant points of her spiky crown and the upward thrust of her flickering lamp, it is easy to miss altogether the shackles of human enslavement that Lady Liberty – who is at the centre of a fresh skirmish in the US's accelerating culture wars – is busy trampling underfoot. Her meaning contains multitudes. It pulls her in many directions.
Messily inspired, as all great art is, by a mixture of sources – from the Roman goddess Libertas, to the Greek sun god Helios, to the multifaceted Egyptian goddess Isis (who fascinated the sculpture's creator, the French artist Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi) – the Statue of Liberty seems hardwired for debate. She boldly embodies the one straightforward truth about cultural symbols: their truths are never straightforward.
From the moment the statue was unveiled in October 1886, it provoked criticism from both ends of the political spectrum The current controversy over the essence of Bartholdi's 46m (151ft)-tall copper sculpture, ingeniously engineered by Gustave Eiffel and formally presented to the United States as a gift from France on 4 July 1884, is a striking painting by African American contemporary artist Amy Sherald that reimagines the Statue of Liberty as a black transgender woman.
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I guess for Amy Sherald, only the rich should come to the U.S.
It it was my child or grandchild, I'd probably display in on my fridge with a magnet. Otherwise, I would probably just throw it away as the tawdry doodle that it is.
Her work is literally “flat”, devoid of dimension and depth, and lacking in talent.
But for the woke political message, it’s something a six-grader would paint and would not merit mention.
Left wingers don’t give a damn about the US Constitution, but they’ll point to the inscription on a gifted French-made statue as if it is holy scripture. As much of a beloved landmark that it is, I sometimes wonder if we wouldn’t be just as well off without that false idol existing to give excuses for those trying to destroy the country through demographic replacement.
A good High school graduation requirement: Make everyone stand in front of their class and recite the Gettysburg Address from memory. It’s 5 minutes. Drill it into their head.
Lefties will find a way to refuse to allow their kids to do it. For that they get a ‘D’ but pass anyway.
The birth rate among the traditional demographics is plummeting.
The meaning of platitudes, which the poem on the plate absolutely is full of.
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