Title: The Flag Is Bleeding #2
Artist: Faith Ringgold
Year: 1997
This painting depicts a bleeding flag and a mother bleeding from the breasts as her children cling to her. I think this image is disturbing and beatiful at the same time. The opression that people of different races and cultures, especially the women, is still present even in African Americans, who have been free'd from slavery since 1860's and Civil Rights has been over since the 1970's, but this artist and many other people still see that unity between the races and cultures can come a lot further, this piece shows the trials and tribulations of a black mother, we do not know her story, but we feel for her as she stands behind our countries esteemed flag, which is fetchingly bleeding with her.
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