American Progress is an 1872 painting by John Gast, a Prussian-born painter, printer, and lithographer who lived and worked most of his life during 1870s in Brooklyn, New York. American Progress, an allegory of manifest destiny, was widely disseminated in chromolithographic prints.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Progress
The sky was never as beautiful as it was before 1492
Fuck this shit showing my ancestors as the darkness being pushed away.
It is. But it seemed a good time to remind the younger generation of how art can be used to push agendas in a very negative way. I expected a lot of discussion, which is one of the purposes of art.
If this doesn't belong here, just downvote it folks and I'll remove it.
Well, I can't downvote from my instance, and I wouldn't anyway. The discourse is more important. Now that I know your purpose was the discussion, I'm much more inclined to upvote and add more to the discussion.
They really just need labels and this would be a refined garrison comic huh
I just finished watching this pbs doc:
The American Buffalo
https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-buffalo
It's actually about how the buffalo's decimation in the 1800s greatly accelerated the destruction of native American Indians' way of life. This shouldn't be news to anyone, but then again the show should be required viewing for every American, as a reminder.
I just watched that one, too, and perfect timing for Native American heritage day. It was such a sad story. I'm not very hopeful that America will ever do right by either the bison or the Native Americans.
