What point is the artist trying to make about America? What goes through your mind as you look at this?
REFERANCE:
Wayne Eagleboy (American, contemporary), We the People, 1971, Art Wagon Gallery. Contemporary Native American Wayne Eagleboy's version of the US flag bears portraits of two Indian men behind a screen of barbed-wire. The painting is framed with fur.
40 comments:
They are trying to get across that they don't want Native Americans in the U.S. They are also saying that Native Americans are evil and are threatening the U.S.
They are trying to say that America is a place where Native Americans cannot be wild. They don't have the right to harm no one. Thats what they are trying to say.
I think it means America was found by Native American people, And native Americans are part of America,Also that are a race of families and they want there place in history in America.
This picture, in my opinion, is very powerful. The meaning of the painting from what I can gather, is that Native-Americans are apart of America. That they were the start of America and this picture is portraying that. As I look at this the Native-Americans and how they were robbed by the lying Americans goes through my mind. The struggle goes through my mind. And how they also deserve rights goes through my mind.
-Antonese R.
The point of this picture is to say that native Americans are part of America. The thing that goes throw my head is that this picture is really touch full it's hard to explain the felling but is like saying that native Americans are important to America to.
The thing that goes through my mind when we see that is that the guy who made that was probably Indian.So he believed that the Indian was probably taking over the Americans and that he wanted freedom and rights.So then that is why he drew a picture of Indians in the stars of the America flag then that is really emotional in the Indians because it means there freedom that they want.
The artist might be trying to say is that America also involves the Native Americans. They are also on the land. That's probably why the two people are placed on the stars which represent the colonies. But they are behind barbed wire that is actually hard to see. That might mean that they feel like they've been captures. The colors are very gloomy and depressing, maybe to show the dark side of America.
I think what the artist is trying to say is that America belongs to the Native Americans . And that the Native Americans is America. It probably also represents the fact that Native Americans felt that they were prisoners in their own land. The colors of the flag are a dark shade or red white and blue and it gives off this gloomy feeling. It looks worn out so it probably tried representing the colors of Earth.
The artist is trying to say that America belongs to the Indians.He is saying that Indians are the ones who make the flag.He is showing how America was formed and who was here first.
Keyvan
When I look at this picture it really makes me think. The Native Americans being inside the flag is very strong very emotional. The Native Americans complete this world.The artist might of put the Native Americans in the place of the 50 stars because theres more of them.This is my opinion so th artist may done this piece of art for other reasons that i don't know.Probably I'll never find out,unless i research it .
It looks like they are trying to make Indian more American. It's getting rid of their heritage and replacing it with ours.
It is discriminating and unrealistic to do this to them. It's is just a tragedy to see this.
-Aldo
I think the artist is trying to potray the fact that Indians are welcomed in america.They show that with the native people in the square with their heads up.Showing pride.Then we have the red and white strips going along the sides.I think that the artist was trying to say that he or she thinks that they are very important.Especially to
In my opinion this picture is a very meaningful and powerful way of perpetrating the person who drew this pictures bias.For example as we all know the American flag has white,and red stripes and it also has stars so they got that part right but in the way that this picture varies from that is in the way that in where the stars are there is a native American couple.Now this is meaningful in the form that the are sending the message that America belongs to them or that they are a major part of America just like how the red,white, and blue is and so are the stars.I don't necessarily think that this picture is adequate because America doesn't belong to one race or group of people in particular and all the other group of people are just as important to what America is as the Native America.
In the photo you could tell what they are trying to say. That America belongs to the Native American.Instead a picture of the stars they put their picture. As a symbol saying we are the right owners of America.They are saying that they were here first and they are the ones who need to have the land.The Americans took there land away.They just want to claim what is theirs.
stephanie
This image is clearly a very artistic way to express what the artist feels about this subject. I believe that the artist is trying to show that America is not just a country of Caucasians, but a country of different ethnic varieties. The Native American faces replace the stars, which means the number of states in our country. By replacing them with the faces of Native American ancestors I believe they're trying to demonstrate that without the discovery of America by their people their would be no such thing as America. I feel a sense sympathy when I look at this picture, because without their presence in America, our civilization would be less evolved. This fight still continues with the hope that they will gain what they deserve in these modern times.
This painting or picture really makes America look more racist . When I see this painting/picture I feel bad for the Native Americans , they don't deserve the taunts they get . They are always made to look and act not smart in old cartoons , and they don't get any credit for the discovery of America , although most believe it was Columbus that did that it was really the Native Americans.
Itzel Fernandez
The artist may probably be saying that Native Americans are the only ones that do belong in the US. Something is holding them back, because of the screen of barbed-wire. It kind of represented the racism that still goes along. I believe they are standing up for their beliefs. Their look on their face says that they will never give up.
The artist is trying to say that native Americans are part of America too.They are just as important as anyone else.
The point of the picture is that the artist is trying to have all the african americans
They are trying to get across that they don't want Native Americans in the U.S. They are also saying that Native Americans are evil and are threatening the U.S.
Dulce Lopez
I think this picture is trying to say that we don't want native Americans in the u.s
with the bared-wired fence made out of the stars on the flag and two indian men behind it.
This is their land.They are only here and they don't live no where else.They are trying to make it seem like we are nice and treat them good compared to how they "should" be treated.They are trying to make the way we treat them seem okay.Well it's not and we treated them as if they weren't human.As if their race doesn't matter.They can't say "oh well if you were on our land we wouldn't treat your race the way you treat us.They can't say that because we came to their only land and took it over imediantelly.Because of that they get the theory that all Native-Americans don't stand up for themselves and you can take whatever you want from them.
Well the artist to me is trying to make the point of we Indians came here first and you just took our land and kept us out of here.
What goes through my mind as i look at this its like well that they feel left out or locked out of what used to be their land and that they probably aren't getting the freedom that they are supposed to get.
They are trying to say that native America is a place that people don't do nothing bad so they are saying that Native American's are not fit for America they can go wild somewhere else.
I think it's saying that if your not like us Americans then you belong behide bars.That's why Native Americans are behide them because they are wild not like Americans. I think that's not right. MARIA T!!!
I think it's saying that America was found by Native Americans and that they don't want them any more.They are part of America to.That's what I think It's trying to say.
It is say that Native Americans are part of America. When i see the picture I think that Native Americans are good people.They have the Native Americans on a picture of the flag. Show people that they were part of America.
The point that the artist trying to make about America is that we don't want Native Americans in the U.S.Also that Native Americans are threatening the U.S and that they are bad people who are bad very bad.
DAISY C. && DALILA S.
we believe that this picture is trying to say that native Americans are important too and are also part of America.
We also think its trying to represent that
Indian were the first to own this country,therefore there is a picture painting of them.It shows who were the
ones who formed this land!
The picture is trying to show that Native Americans are a part of America.They want you to know that Native Americans are the ones who found this country and the ones who owns the country.
This picture is showing a lot of things. It showed a lot of emotions.
I THINK THAT IT IS VERY OFFENSIVE. IT OFFENSIVE TO MANY AMERICANS. THEY MADE DEMONIZE THE FLAG. PEOPLE ARE REALLY GETTING OFFENSIVE. PEOPLE ARE NOT GOOD WITH THIS.
ALEX MEZA
Anonymouse said
they are saying that native people are mean and scary and there trying to harme us.and there trying to get across but they dont want native americans in the U.S.
I think that the point they are trying to make is that the Native Americans that were here in America first. My thought for the picture is sad and very weird for them to put that but it is nice to know they were here at the begin.
When i looked at this photo it brought me a lot of emotion. The point of this picture, is that Native Americans are part of America. Even though they are different, they are still part of America. They were the ones that made America, happen. As I look at this picture the Native-Americans are being hold by a pig fence.
-MARIA G.
When i saw this picture the first thing came to my mind is that native Americans love this country.they are trying to get across is their was native Americans were here first.
jessica reynoso
h.6
daniel said that they are tring to make a good flag that americans and and their race to combine and be equal
I think this picture means that the Indians are not aloud in America and they are not doing a good job hear.I think this picture is mean and it makes people man.And the people of America don't even care because they are not Indians and they don't feel good.
Guadalupe Canedo
They did not want any native Americans in the u.s because they said that they were like mean and disrespectful . this is what i think and that they did not belong here.
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