by Stanley Mishkin

Artwork Description

The New Liberty

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17x12ins. Oil on canvas. This painting is my response to the 9/11 disaster. It juxtaposes the athletic figure of a nude woman in a defiant gesture standing on the American flag (where in fact The Statue of Liberty stands) against the burning twin towers of the World Trade Center. Here my commentary reflects on the Patriot Act, which was an abandonment of the American constitution in the face of those terrorist attacks, and the collective jingoistic paranoia toward the Islamic immigrant population leading up to the invasion of Iraq.

Artwork Details

Medium: Painting Oil

Genre: Impressionistic