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programs for youth
Open
Edition Offset Lithograph on acid-free 120 lb card stock
$315.00
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Image
size: 19.5" X 23.5”
Paper
size: 24.5 X 28.5”
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by the Artist
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Description
As
seen on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine, July 7, 2020
Based
on Eugéne Delacroix’s 19th century masterpiece Liberty Leading the
People, a commemoration of the French Revolution, American Uprising
is a celebration of the spirit of protest and the active campaign
against systemic racism toward African American people, a movement
spearheaded primarily by African American women. In this modern
masterpiece, Nelson borrows postures from Delacroix’s Liberty and
reinvents them with an heroic African American woman and child. The
woman wears an American flag scarf, a tee shirt bearing a portrait of
George Floyd, and is accompanied by her younger compatriot who
enthusiastically joins the uprising. They emerge from a billowing
cloud of smoke, both with raised fists while climbing a pedestal,
leading a diverse and spirited army of protesters toward justice and
equality.
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