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Mackenna Myers

Art II

May 29, 2013

Social Issue Critique I believe that this painting is showing government corruption and how it’s bad. It shows how governments pick sides and are too worried about other things to worry about the people in it. This picture shows how governments aren’t all that great.

The first way this picture shows corruption is on the chessboard. There’s fire and things pieces are on the ground broken. It has the queen and Lady Liberty as the only one’s standing while all the other leaders are on the ground broken. Showing how America’s government doesn’t care about other governments/nations.

The second way is underneath the lion’s armpit are people’s faces, which look troubled, I guess, is a good was to describe it. The lion itself doesn’t look to worried about the people, showing the government doesn’t care about its people.

The last way is in the back you can see an eagle (representing us) eating something that looks like South America. That is showing how America is just taking out South America and just eating them up by using everything they have. The US is using South America’s things and using their resources and eventually they will be gone.

I think this piece was successful in showing how governments are messed up but I personally don’t like this piece. I can appreciate good pieces of art but this piece just didn’t speak to me. I personally thought was random and didn’t really come together very well.