I was 20 years old when this photo was shot and published. Google napalm girl to learn more (the girl in the photo, Phan Thị Kim Phú, now lives in Canada). Some consider the publication of the image to have been liberal propaganda against the United States government.It eerily reminds me of Edvard Munch's painting, The Scream, which reminds me to a degree of Van Gogh's abstract painting, Wheat Field With Crows.
Banksy, the British graffiti artist, painted the image you see on the post above (or click here): What point do you think he was trying to make?
3 comments:
It's ironic, among many other things. What with mickey mouse and mcdonalds as two of the biggest corporate icons of America holding the hands of a girl that was burned as a result of our use of napalm in Vietnam. I commend Banksy for his work.
speaks to me of our so-called american values and thinking of the children. She is too poor to pay and be worth something to us, maybe that's why she doesn't count to be cared about. Maybe it is because the people we kill and maim in war aren't as human as the lives we claim to defend. Maybe she committed the crime of not being an american. I look at that picture five days a week, and I hate it.
I might be too sensitive,
or maybe my heart pumps blood to a functioning brain, and I think about and try to understand what I'm seeing.
I think the point Bansky was trying to make was how our wonderful media, yet again (even back then) exploded things into the news, making it almost a pop icon, like Mickey Mouse and Ronald. Ridiculous
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