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Gaceta Callejera: America, Open for Business by Art Hazelwood

Gaceta Callejera: America, Open for Business by Art Hazelwood

Gaceta Callejera: America, Open for Business

Art Hazelwood

Title

Gaceta Callejera: America, Open for Business

 
Artist

Art Hazelwood

  1961 - PRESENT (biography)
Year
2020  
Technique
color screenprint 
Image Size
18 5/8 x 12 3/8" image size 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
1 of 18  
Annotations
Text within image: Gaceta Callejera. / America, Open for Business 
Reference
 
Paper
sturdy buff wove 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
ARHA218 
Price
SOLD
Description
In the article “An Artist for the Moment,” Paul Von Blum describes this screenprint by Art Hazelwood: “America, Open for Business” depicts Trump and his capitalist cronies demanding the reopening of American commerce, despite the overwhelming human cost, with now more than 150,000 dead and counting. At the top of the composition is a large money-bag figure, revealing the real interests at work: large corporations pulling the puppet strings of Trump and the captive Republican Party. The vulture on top is reminiscent of the biting 19th century cartoons of Thomas Nast. This work, like the others, is unapologetically unsubtle, a historic feature of effective political art.