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Green Pastures: The Birds that Didn't Learn How to Fly 2008 (Cloth rags, rubber-coated copper...

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HGH8766715
Image title
Green Pastures: The Birds that Didn't Learn How to Fly 2008 (Cloth rags, rubber-coated copper wire, wire, screws, and enamel paint on canvas on wood)
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Artist
Dial, Thornton (b.1928) / American
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Location
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Medium
Cloth rags, rubber-coated copper wire, wire, screws, and enamel paint on canvas on wood
Date
2008 AD (C21st AD)
Dimensions
176.5x242.6x7.6 cms
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This painting is one in a series made by Thornton Dial that features hanging blackbirds. Made from the artist’s used paint rags, the creatures are a parody of Jim Crow, the racist designation for Black people that was applied to institutionalized segregation. Subtitled The Birds That Didn’t Learn How to Fly, this work hints at lynching and the terror it once visited on Blacks in the South. The work is ironically titled Green Pastures, a biblical reference to a promised land of abundance beyond this life of suffering and hardship.

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© High Museum of Art / Bridgeman Images
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Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from their William S. Arnett Collection
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accusation / allegory / agony / art / contemporary art / colour / sadness / feeling / USA / North America / America (continent) / line / blackbird / bird / african-american / painting / hanging (death) / racism / racial segregation / discrimination / symbol / textile / 2000s / 21st century / texture / silhouette / dripping / Black (ethnicity)
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Largest available format 4842 × 3519 px 22 MB
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title.quality.23 1024 × 744 px 87 × 63 mm 1.3 MB
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