Greeted As Liberators
This rather strange painting by Sandow Birk is in the style of the older forms of propaganda: glorious paintings of Napoleonic battles and Soviet victories.
It depicts the saying just before the war that the US would be greeted as liberators in Iraq. Obviously this is not quite what came to pass.
I like it because it contextualizes the current war and its imagery and rhetoric with that of conflicts from the beginning of recorded history. It can be hard to place current events in the context of history, even though some things don't change. Wars happen, and the participating factions tend to glorify them after the fact.
It depicts the saying just before the war that the US would be greeted as liberators in Iraq. Obviously this is not quite what came to pass.
I like it because it contextualizes the current war and its imagery and rhetoric with that of conflicts from the beginning of recorded history. It can be hard to place current events in the context of history, even though some things don't change. Wars happen, and the participating factions tend to glorify them after the fact.
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