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Flags And Their Many Meanings

Flags and Their Many Meanings
Art Appreciation
Final Critical Essay
By: Rachelle Goude
April 23, 2005

Critical Essay on God Bless America, Faith Ringgold, What is the Proper Way to Display the American Flag?, Dread Scott Tyler and The World Flag Ant Farm, Yukinori Yanagi.

Flags and their Many Meanings

I will be describing and evaluating the works and artists described above. To begin I will describe each work and its symbolism. I will then summarize the artists and the times of their artworks. Afterwards, I will explain how the works fit into the time period and then compare and contrast all three artworks.
To begin, I chose the above artworks because of their symbols, the flag. Each artwork depicts a flag in different forms and for different reasons. The first, God Bless America was painted by Faith Ringgold. The painting's star is depicted as a sheriff's badge and its stripes are in the form of prison bars symbolizing that the United States has turned into a......


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Approximate Pages: 7 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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