American Progress is an 1872 painting by John Gast, a Prussian-born painter, printer, and lithographer who lived and worked most of his life during 1870s in Brooklyn, New York. American Progress, an allegory of manifest destiny, was widely disseminated in chromolithographic prints.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Progress

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    The sky was never as beautiful as it was before 1492

    Fuck this shit showing my ancestors as the darkness being pushed away.

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        2 months ago

        It is. But it seemed a good time to remind the younger generation of how art can be used to push agendas in a very negative way. I expected a lot of discussion, which is one of the purposes of art.

        If this doesn’t belong here, just downvote it folks and I’ll remove it.