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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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Cloth rags, rubber-coated copper wire, wire, screws, and enamel paint on canvas on wood

Date

2008 AD (C21st AD)

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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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Largest available format 4842 × 3519 px 22 MB
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Large 4842 × 3519 px 410 × 298 mm 22.0 MB
Medium 1024 × 744 px 87 × 63 mm 1.3 MB

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