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This painting is The New American Gothic. Now more than ever does this painting need to be famous! Honest people who do honest work are targeted and being criminalized.
87 upvotes, 11 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Mi Gente Latino. "This painting is The New American Gothic. Now more than ever does this painting need to be famous! Honest people who do honest work are targeted and being criminalized."
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Anonymous 13w

No offense but why are we always portrayed as maids & landscape workers? We are more than just that

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Anonymous 13w

I love this sm

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Anonymous 13w

I like this painting, it’s beautiful, and I can appreciate the hard-work that went into it but like I can’t fully get behind the messaging. I get the meaning but it’s like half baked thought. I understand that a lot of us a laborers but also that’s all Latinos are ever seen as and valued as. It only captures a small part of what is the complex issue of immigration and why people immigrate and their life here in America. It’s kinda reductionistic and hella corny.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13w

it’s frequent yes and often harmful, but in this case i think it’s valuable. this piece is beautiful especially when you consider how rare it is to have a painted portrait, and that wealthy individuals are so often the only ones to afford it.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13w

Agreed

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13w

If you read the caption it states people who are criminalized for doing honest work. The past few days I, along with many in the mass media have seen the criminalization of street vendors, housekeeping, and other services. If you look at the original American Gothic, it was farmers, two colonial white farmers.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 13w

This the artists caption on her work.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13w

Criselda Vasquez's "The New American Gothic" is a reinterpretation of Grant Wood's iconic 1930 painting "American Gothic." Vasquez's 2017 oil on canvas piece features her parents, Mexican immigrants, posed in front of a red van, holding cleaning supplies and a hoe?

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13w

This powerful work captures the struggles and resilience of immigrant families, shedding light on their daily realities and the quiet, unassuming fight for a better life.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 13w

Vasquez's art has been praised for its thought-provoking commentary on the Mexican-American experience. Her work has also been recognized for its impact in representing the struggles of undocumented immigrants and laborers

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 13w

To me it gives off the vibes in movies when a Latino character mixes in “primo or “prima” or just random Spanish words to seem more “Latino” but it’s just ends up hella corny

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