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Critique of a Social Issue Painting This painting is depicting the status of the world today. The starving lion is all middle class people being snuffed out by the power of the United States and Britain. The eagle tugging at South America and the Chinese man that looks like a fridge is under the United States control. The balance with George Washington’s head and the world is the huge role that Democracy plays in the world. Lions are a symbol of bravery, as show in the classic movie Wizard Of Oz, but in this painting he is not as brave as he should be. He is the middle class, the broke, the starving, and the controlled. The Statue of Liberty and the Queen of England are the oppressors destroying anyone in their way. Anyone who tries to oppose them is taken down, shown in this chessboard. The world is under the control of the United States and Britain. The chessboard is cracking and burning because the tyranny rule of the US and Britain is destroying the world. George W. Bush is up in the clouds smiling because he is a key player in of oppression the US people and the whole world. The eagle tugging on the fabric resembling South America because the US is forcing democracy down their throats while taking resources from South America like trees and oil. The Chinese man who looks like a fridge with little food is showing how Chinese people are starving to fulfill the constant exports to the United States. The bull the Chinese man is holding being stabbed by thread needles is showing how the United States is reaping China for exported resources. The balance with George Washington’s head on one side and the world on the other shows how big a role Democracy has upon the world. George Washington’s head weighs more then the world because in the eye of the world Democracy is key to survival. The world on the scale seems to be breaking away from the weight of his head. I believe this is a very successful painting but very controversial. This piece highlights all the issues in the world today. The more I look at this the more I love it. It enrages me against the tyranny of the United States government and the British government’s rule throughout the world. I assume someone in Asian, maybe China, made it because if someone who was not communist made it it would enrage die-hard Democratic people. This painting embodies all that is wrong with the world today. I can see this painting’s artist being persecuted for making this, people don’t want to believe there is problems in the world they want to pretend like everything is all right. This picture screams rebellion against tyranny. I love it.