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the rape of americana

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oil on canvas, 30'x24'

ahhh sooo. the assignment was to paint a historical narrative. i figured what better topic than one of the darkest moments in american history... the assasination of jfk and the subsequent coverup and dis-information campaign. i find this topic terribly fascinating.. it symbolizes such a terrible perversion of all american ideals. men, people in power who were determined to keep their position at any cost, unilaterally made the decisions for a nation, completely lawlessly and with reckless abandon. they shot the president, they destroyed the most popular leader of the 20th century and blew his head open while his wife clutched him in his arms. the coverup was so full of holes that even the government's senate subcommittee on assasinations admited there were multiple shooters and that both the fbi and cia had 'most likely' participated in some sort of coverup. the warren commision (the initial report, the bullshit d'grace) was found to be factually incorrect in about every department.
but i digress, i don't need to convince anyone the president was murdered by those in power, the evidence speaks for itself. before i presented this my class, my teacher allowed me to show the abraham zapruder film to the class. the zapruder film is the only complete film of the assasination and has been the topic of hot debate for 40 years. the film clearly shows kenedy being shot in the throat, jackie o holding him, and then his head exploding and him being forced backwards, indicating he was shot from the front, not the back.
as for the painting, we have one particular frame of the zapruder film showing the kennedys right as the fatal headshot takes jfk's life.... obviously, the blood is hyperbolized, to accentuate the outragousness and abject horror of the crime. behind him, we have the murder of lee harvey oswald, to silence him, to silence the truth of his role as the pasty. jack ruby shoots him in the basement of the dallas police department, easily gaining entrance to the facility and wounding oswald fatally. the blood spray from kennedy coats them too, direct resuts of the heinous murder. the scene is based off the very famous footage of oswald's murder, although a few artistic liberties were taken. if you notice, none of the figures in this painting have eyes... except for the last guy in the background, who stands watching with a silent smirk on his face.... the man, the watchers, the betrayers of the union.... our enemy within. and then finally we have the flag, decrepid and corrupt, no longer showing it's true brilliance.... it has been soiled with the blood of the innocent.

a terrible crime against a country and it's people. and they got away with it.
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grimdrifter's avatar
Amazingly effective art, the silencing of Oswald is brilliant in its cold black-and-white behind the full-color murder of JFK. And the flag, it is as if it is disintegrating as these two events unfold.