(I used a picture from Wikipedia that has an open license, since the picture in the article is from a banned source.)
Lenbachhaus recently retitled this 1911 painting by August Macke, dropping an outdated, racist term used to describe Native Americans.
Well, you need some kind of description so you can tell what it is.
I am so tired of this crap.
“As a public museum, we are obliged to critically reflect on the Blue Rider and his work in a historical context,” the institution wrote.”
No, you’re not. You’re “obliged” to display the art and keep your opinions to yourselves. Nobody asked you twits what you thought.
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American Indians call themselves “Indian” more frequently than than “Native American.” They are not politically correct or moronic on this topic.
White man trying to erase the last of Native Americans.
So “Indians” is now a racist term? Who decided that? Most Indians call themselves Indians.
I’d be pissed too if someone confused me with someone from India. It’s a terrible thing to say.
We are doomed. Our world is full of stupid people
Is there anybody else who thinks this painting looks like a piece of crap? If I were an Indian, I wouldn’t want Indian in the title either.
Leave it to a German to change history as they did in the 1930s.
Fucking G******!
I like the coloring of the picture.
“Heap Big Painting with Squaw”?
"When American GIs poured into Germany in 1945, they were astonished to discover that German children, after 12 years of Nazi rule, could be found decked-out in buckskins and feathers and playing 'Indians'. Every spring in Radebeul, a quiet Dresden suburb, tens of thousands of grown-ups do the same. The explanation for both these phenomena is Karl May (1842-1912), a Saxon weaver's son, jailbird, self-described linguist—and the man who single-handedly invented the wild west for generations of Europeans. Long before the Lone Ranger, May was giving unruly cowboys what-for, befriending Winnetou, a great Apache warrior, and generally bringing peace and order to the frontier. "
Ich bin ein Cowboy The Economist, 24 May 2001
Let's go burn some books.... < s a r c >
I’d change it to Injuns.
“Indian” for the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas is not racist, and “Native American” honors an Italian, Amerigo Vespucci. Anyway it’s offensive to have a horse in the painting—that’s cultural appropriation. The Indians didn’t have any horses until the Spanish brought them over.
What about PETA?
They object to using the name of animals in titles.
The title should be “I***** on H*********”...........
If I had a print of this...I’d buy it and hang it in my house. I love it.....