Posted on 06/05/2010 6:22:17 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
More coverage:
“Art Attack: Elementary school mural getting a ‘lighter’ facelift”: http://www.prescottaz.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubsectionID=1086&ArticleID=81753
“Altered mural fuels racial debate in Prescott”: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2010/06/04/20100604arizona-mural-sparks-racial-debate.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnO6DJ8RqIE&feature=player_embedded
Once again, the ‘Adults’ get it wrong....
Alas, "art" frequently just mirrors the illusions of the masses.
What adults?
Apparently we can’t have diversity on a mural, even if it looks like Commie Chinese propaganda posters
Precious few in this story.
The second one reminds me of one of those `Find the Things That Don’t Belong’ pictures in Highlights kids’ magazine, found in dentists’ waiting rooms.
1. The raccoon isn’t wearing a mask, but maybe the artist thought this stigmatized him in some way. Or maybe AZ `coons don’t have masks.
2. Someone left out a box full of empty plastic bottles. Those should have been pitched in the trash.
3. And what are those old tires doing on the rock?
4. The animal in the background looks like Pokey, Gumby’s mount.
5. What’s with the vampire bat?! That’s going to frighten children ...
Seems to me the artist could have taken a little more time composing his work. ;^)
Ugly art. Who paid for it?
lol!
The kid in the top painting looks like a black Mao Tse-dong.
The artists are allowing a raccoon to steal and eat a perfectly edible crawdad ~ that should be reserved for the hu-manz.
I think the property owners who pay taxes to the Prescott school district footed the bill for this crappy art.
Note: The art is crappy whether the skin color of the portraits are “whitened” or not.
I disagree. The coon’s mask is too light.
I think the taxpayers need to get together and decide on a nice shade of beige to cover it up.
No backward ballcaps or buttcracks visible?
That type of art is all over Tucson. It is the same type of art that the Communists posted everywhere they could get a foothold in the early part of the Twentieth Century. It is meant to divide communities.
It is ugly, it does not represent the whole community, it does not lift the spirit in joy. It makes the children look unattractive, they do not smile with their eyes.
Are there no white children in Prescot? Prescott has traditionally been a rancher’s town in the past. Are there no pictures of children helping on the ranch? Could not the black and indian child have been depicted more attractively?
How come there are not pictures of children of different races playing with each other?
Are the artists racists?
If the school at which it was painted has mostly minority kids, it would be perfectly natural to portray those kids on it. And even if it's not a school with mostly minority kids, it is minority kids who seem to be at great risk for obesity.
I think this was a knee-jerk reaction by a thin-skinned councilman.
This is he, the one with the smug look of having been educated beyond his abilities.
http://www.whec.com/news/stories/S1590297.shtml?cat=565
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