A house divided cannot stand. I'm glad FDR had the good sense to make a difficult but meaningful decision. The Harlem Hellfighters is winning for coolest name today. 😂🔥 To know that they were the 369th Infantry Regiment makes me wonder what number we're at today. That's a lot of soldiers... Loved the detail about the two parallels and the victory iconography. I'm gonna take "...and non-stop work will speed it" with me today.
The speakers here clearly know their stuff when it comes to art history but are sadly deficient in their knowledge of tools - one uses a mallet to drive a wedge into something, not an axe. And it clearly looks like a mallet too.
We appreciate your comment, the tool portrayed here is not clearly depicted and is not even entirely within the frame. It is possible that it is a mallet as you suggest, it also possible it is a common type of axe known as a splitting maul. It is also very possible that it is not any particular type of tool.
It should be displayed and explained more often at the museum.
This is amazing, top of symbolism
Very informative video on a great American artist.
great symbolism, truly an excellent painting and work of art
A house divided cannot stand. I'm glad FDR had the good sense to make a difficult but meaningful decision.
The Harlem Hellfighters is winning for coolest name today. 😂🔥 To know that they were the 369th Infantry Regiment makes me wonder what number we're at today. That's a lot of soldiers...
Loved the detail about the two parallels and the victory iconography. I'm gonna take "...and non-stop work will speed it" with me today.
A black and white painting.
The speakers here clearly know their stuff when it comes to art history but are sadly deficient in their knowledge of tools - one uses a mallet to drive a wedge into something, not an axe. And it clearly looks like a mallet too.
We appreciate your comment, the tool portrayed here is not clearly depicted and is not even entirely within the frame. It is possible that it is a mallet as you suggest, it also possible it is a common type of axe known as a splitting maul. It is also very possible that it is not any particular type of tool.
Thank you for your response. I should not have been so arrogantly assertive, and have been deservedly (and expertly) corrected (o:
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