Interesting, i wanted to thumb down because i disagree with the narrative. My fine art background, though, actually appreciates you and them for even HAVING a narrative, that was the original use of pre neo classical. I actually didn't think it existed for that use anymore, but it looks like it does. So i guess making it neo, as its trying to classisize the contemporary.
The ladder is likely referencing social status. She's at the bottom of the ladder -- the lowest, the "poor class" -- who have the least access to safe abortion. That's likely why the woman had to do this operation on herself in the first place. She's poor, so she can't travel to where it's legal to have an abortion.
I agree but it also rings to me as a play on 'falling' pregnant. It makes this look like an injury or an accident, like she's been laid out after falling from the tree. It strips fault or responsibility from the act for me. Becoming pregnant is something that can happen so easily as an accident or against a person's will and the consequences can be so catastrophic.
I feel these are both good assessments. I was thinking the tree was an apple tree and the ladder means she has to "climb the ladder" to get access to bodily autonomy (knowledge) but she "fell". Kind of an addition to what you are saying about her financiall station in life but also her position as a woman in society.
These are really good exolanations for the ladder, but I would also like to add my own. To me it appears as if the ladder represents her departure from this world, her ascention, in other words her death. Just to point out that I am not religious and do not believe in any kind of afterlife, but this interpretation seem reasonable to me. Sorry for any spelling mistakes or incoherences:)
I know that some pregnant women aborted by jumping several times from a certain height (from a chair or a ladder for example). These repetitive falls causes a miscarriage.
I had an aunt in Colombia that was married to an abusive alcoholic with 2 babies. She was working 2 jobs as a cleaner to support them. She ended up pregnant again. She knew she couldn’t afford to have another child, she couldn’t even afford to be pregnant and continue to work. As abortion was illegal in Colombia, she went to a back alley “partera” who went at her with a hanger. She died after a few days of immense suffering, pain and bleeding. Her children ended up technically orphaned going from couch to couch, as their father abandoned them. Abortion is healthcare and should be available to everyone. Ironic that abortion is now legal in Colombia.
Banning abortion is, in practice, a socioeconomic form of battle against the lower classes by the wealthy classes. It's only a small part of the ongoing, global class war that contemporary history shows ad infinitum. "They" will tell us they value sanctity of life and that we don't value life. This is a smokescreen. The real value in banning abortions is increasing poverty and thereby increasing the population of poor people that the wealthy can squeeze for labor and debt. This is the real way it works. I know I sound like a communist. I am not. If I were born in the 1900s or so, I would be an FDR New Deal Democrat. In this time of the 2020s, I'm a Green Deal, left-libertarian, without any real party to support except maybe the American Green Party. Unfortunately, the Green Party will likely never rise in power in this country that's both full of incendiary hatred towards various forms of socialism or progressivism, and also full of industry lobbyists who mindlessly seek profits over well-being. I'm sorry for your aunt's untimely death. To me, she, her kids, and her extended family, including you, are victims of a global class war.
This is an example for when art can make a difference and be a force for change. I'm 58 years old and I can't believe we're having this conversation again. We all thought women won. Now we're back to 1950.
Another possible explanation for the nakedness may be a rejection from society. As you said "A dangerous operation on herself, by herself, because nobody...could do it for her". In this moment she is rejected by professionals and criminalised by society. Completely and utterly isolated (if you want to extend this symbolism, she too has been aborted from the help which society promises its people). She will perform the operation on herself and recover by herself. The absence of clothing symbolises a detachment from societal conformity, since society has turned its back on her. She sees no need for clothing as she faces these struggles alone.
Amazing video, I'm actually a student under Anne and she is definitely a voice we need in the contemporary art world. She's such an inspiration, especially as a female painter myself. Her skill is truly exceptional!
I'm a 20yo male and I live in Iran and I simply can not stress how often this topic comes to my mind, despite my circumstances, one might think. On one end one takes into consideration how it may often appear as wrong to take a fetuses life, either out of necessity, or one's facilties. but when you think deeper about situations like this there not only are numerous variable where, upon similar instances, need taking into consideration. Like how long after pregnancy one may require abortion or under what circumstances was some made pregnant, ( I express as such for where I live even under most severest instances, rape, accident, genetical malformity of the baby, etc... one who is pregnant is obliged to deliver their babies), and that is, as I understand it, unbearable and unjust. Also, seeing as how in most third-world countries, a great deal of people Oftener than intended, don't live so prosperous lives so to add an unintended baby to their long list of expenses, an unintended baby could bring disasters that are unimaginable for the whole family, unlike what is normally thought.
Exactly. I’m also 20 and I live in Brazil and abortion is banned in most cases, in theory it’s decriminalised in cases of rape or medical complications but most hospitals refuse to do them unless women go through lengthy legal battles. Two years the courts tried to force a 10 year old girl who had been raped by her uncle to carry the pregnancy to term, and when she finally managed to get a judicial permit activists doxxed her name and picture online. I honestly think banning abortion is a way of criminalising poverty. Plenty of upper/middle-class women go to neighbouring countries (like Uruguay) to get abortions but only the poor get arrested.
As an Iranian woman, I know what you're referring to. It's mandatory for women to give birth! To creat a life. Oh to be a mother is all women's desire!!! And they think all women want a child ! The miracle of life !!! If you are not in a good marriage, give birth!!!!! A child is the miracle! You have financial problems? Well dont worry a child comes with God's protection! No need to worry!!!! If you're sick mentally and physically........well, still give birth!!!!!!!!!!
When my great grandfather went to WW2 he didn't know that his wife was pregnant. She didn't want to keep the child, which is understandable ofc, so she had the hanger type of procedure, made by herself. She died. My great grandfather only found out years later when he escaped from Siberia and got home. Later he met my great grandmother. So that's how I'm here, existing and admiring your inteligent and important videos. Thank you, really, for each one of them ❤
Sex education should be mandatory. And video like this must be shown for everyone to understand the gravity of the subject. As long as we make pregnancy and abortion just a women's problem, this heart-wrenching procedure will continue to take place. We MUST make boys/ men take full responsibility (legally +financially) of a pregnancy they cause, as much as their partner, and teach them what pregnancy and abortion is about, as much as we teach women, as they all enter early adulthood. To all boys/men- do no take sexual activities lightly, it has dire consequences for other human beings.
3:58 the fact it's titled "States' Rights" gave me chills. The chair, also. The fact that we haven't come nearly as far as we ideally would in terms of recognizing womens' bodily autonomy is definitely a worthy subject of art to convey the ideas and hopelessness within. Also, a woman not being treated for cancer because of the zygote is eerily prescient, I feel I could read that sort of thing today and think "yep, that's just where we're at." I hope that art can help us not resort to past times when things were even worse.
thank you for saying the video is not unbiased, im sick of people being so obsessed with being unbiased. believe in something, be shameless and stick to it. when it comes to something like abortion, playing devils advocate does absolutely nothing but take away womens bodily autonomy.
abortion has as much to do with bodily autonomy as theft does with property rights... we, as a culture, have already established that your liberties end with the harm of others, or as the saying goes "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose", so why is it ever justified to end a human life for the preservation of a lifestyle? is it that we, again as a culture, decided that the right to life isn't absolute? or is it that the value of some lives, no matter how innocent, is up to the beneficiary of the dependent and her relation to the convenient existence of the metaphorical benefactor? starvation of innocent children would never be looked at as a matter of bodily autonomy if it's your duty to use your body to get up and go to the fridge. even a parent that wants to give up their duty is obligated to deliver children safely to an orphanage and not throw them out in the cold, why can't the most innocent and vulnerable among us human beings be granted the same rights as any animal would? our posterity will look back at us the same way we look back at slave holders, where the mights (not rights) of a people is only ever possible with the continued brutal dehumanization and humiliation of life guilty of nothing other being born in the wrong place and time, and i will tell them i tried by best.
@@alibenkhalid4192As I'm sure you know, most people do not agree that an embryo _is_ "a human life," at least in the same sense as a born person. Besides that, though, the right to life has never been absolute. Self-defense is almost universally accepted as a moral act.
@@alibenkhalid4192 will you explain why a little girl who was the victim of a violent rape, possibly even incest, and has a not small percentage of death if she gives birth, if not "just" a life plagued by bodily harm and psychological trauma/an incapacity to care for the survival of their unborn child, is less of human value, than a shapeless insentient unfeeling clump of cells the size of a safety pin for the first couple of months?
@@Spearca human life is an objective metric that isn't measured or quantified by consensus and 2+2=4 no matter how many people say otherwise. human life starts at fertilization, that's biology 101 and over 90% of biologists confirm so. i wish you people would see the preciousness of human life, start caring about the unborn and stop treating them as tumors that need to be extracted.
@@avosmash2121 what a mind numbing comment all around, but let me take a try at this... if you have anger for rapists then you'd argue for the death penalty and not kill the innocent children and treat them as any less human and I'm proud to live in a country that does treat rapists like you immoral pathetic fucks treat "unwanted" innocent babies... someone's ability to feel pain or their size or their psychological effect or even their dependancy on other people is never a reason to kill them when they're born so why the FUCK is this a reason to kill them when they're not born?? wtf goes on in the birth canal that turns what you're basically treating as a tumor into a human being that should be protected?? this is all a pathetic attempt to dehumanized living human beings so you act like they're a zit that needs to be popped or an ingrown hair that needs to be picked, they're alive by every definition of "alive" and they're human beings by every definition of "human being" so please stop wasting your time and just say parents should be able to euthanize their children if they don't want them anymore since they depend on them. any mother that let's her babies die of hunger would go to prison and any mother that kills their child because it seemed better than giving it up for adoption and last I checked, there's a fucking waiting list of adoption and born babies are still dependent on their mother. if you realized there are two patients that need to be taken care of then you wouldn't be here trying to argue with things I didn't fucking write or that ectopic pregnancies aren't treated medically in countries that actually have human rights.
States rights makes me think of the photo of Gerri Santoriwho was photographed in a motel room, naked and dead following an illegal termination. Thank you for this highly important episode. Living in the U.S. right now is pretty terrifying.
Roe V. Wade’s repeal is the reason I decided to go through sterilization. Technically, I still have a 1% chance of pregnancy because I still have ovaries and a uterus, just cut and sealed fallopian tubes, which even that 1% has terrified me. I’m 21 and I signed the consent for sterilization the same week as my birthday. I didn’t ever really worry about pregnancy since I’m very stringent about protection and my only sexual partner did not have the ability to knock me up. Having access to a safe abortion in case my precautions failed was a comfort I never thought about at the time but I haven’t dared to have sex since my state made it criminal for doctors to even acknowledge the procedure even exists. It’s so bad here that you can’t advertise or say condoms can be used as a birth control (aid) because it’s considered abetting abortion, they can only be labeled as STD prevention. I know just in my area the sterilization rate has spiked because pregnancy would be life ruining for so many people. Tbh, sterilization felt less like a choice and more like a necessity. Even if I chose to never have sex again, I’m part of a minority in which 1/3 of us will be raped and I’ve already been assaulted once. Lack of abortion access will only drive higher and higher permanent birth control and unsafe abortions. We’re only seeing the beginning
thank you so much for bringing awareness to this topic through art. living in the US right now, it feels like all of the humanity has left the conversation surrounding abortion, just finding another way to dehumanize women. i really appreciate how much grace and understanding you covered this with
A few anti-choice people are sincere and consistent, and really do support all the aid to mothers and children that I expect you're thinking of. Then there are others - I'd guess a much larger number - who are "against abortion" in the sense that they think it's morally problematic, would never have one, and want to see abortions become rarer - and support a right of legal access, recognizing that it is a sad necessity.
Recently found your channel. I live in one of most red state, Idaho and they have some the strict abortion laws. Plus we have obstetrician gynecologists' leaving our state. Your channel makes one think, which I enjoy..
I think that the topic described in this video would be a great oportunity to revisit the works of Paula Rego. She was a portuguese-british painter that spend much of her career focusing on women’s rights and, more particularly, abortion rights. She made a series of paintings depicting illegal abortions after the Portugal’s 1998 referendum on abortion. The referendum aimed to legalise abortions although the law was not passed. The paintings were published in several Portuguese newspapers before a second referendum in 2007, which reversed the 1998 result, and it is thought that the paintings significantly affected the result. I think that the life and works of Paula Rego would be a great topic for a video on your channel!
Reproductive rights are a topic that is extremely close to my heart, with myself being passionately pro-choice of course. I appreciate you for making this video!
abortion has as much to do with bodily autonomy as theft does with property rights... we, as a culture, have already established that your liberties end with the harm of others, or as the saying goes "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose", so why is it ever justified to end a human life for the preservation of a lifestyle? is it that we, again as a culture, decided that the right to life isn't absolute? or is it that the value of some lives, no matter how innocent, is up to the beneficiary of the dependent and her relation to the convenient existence of the metaphorical benefactor? starvation of innocent children would never be looked at as a matter of bodily autonomy if it's your duty to use your body to get up and go to the fridge. even a parent that wants to give up their duty is obligated to deliver children safely to an orphanage and not throw them out in the cold, why can't the most innocent and vulnerable among us human beings be granted the same rights as any animal would? our posterity will look back at us the same way we look back at slave holders, where the mights (not rights) of a people is only ever possible with the continued brutal dehumanization and humiliation of life guilty of nothing other being born in the wrong place and time, and i will tell them i tried by best.
@@alibenkhalid4192 If the right to life supersedes all other rights that would mean that the government could force us to donate blood, to donate organs, but it doesn't because no one can force your body to keep someone else alive, especially when that involves self-sacrifice such as giving birth
@@soupyweb that's irrelevant to the main point being the parental duty of the mother and father to keep their offspring alive, this isn't just an ethical reality but a biological reality also and unlike your hypothetical examples, fertilization, gestation and birth are natural and ordinary to the human form and do not cause the death of an innocent person (being the baby) ipso facto, someone else's inability to do so on their own on other hand are the opposite where the overwhelming effort to sustain someone's life is unnatural and therefor participatory in its nature of the action. Assuming you're correct on the point of obligatory organ/blood donation and sacrifice the bodily autonomy of oneself to care for his children, ill answer you with a question: What would you think of a person that let his children die because he or she doesn't like needles that are involved in the act of donating blood? Me personally speaking, I would be for the compulsory organ/blood donation assuming fitness and long term health of the parent, but I'm also for the exception for abortion in case a mother's life is threatened, so that's irrelevant.
All three are heavy, but the first one was horrifying to me. As a final year medical student I know very well what procedures like that are supposed to look like. It couldn't be further from that. I'm really shaken, tbh
Thank you for showing us these specific works of art this week and raising this often uncomfortable to think about topic. I have friends that have become pregnant and for whatever reason had an abortion. At least one of them still mourns what would have been her baby's birthday each year, but sometimes an abortion is necessary. I and my friends that have accessed the service are so lucky to live in England where abortion is legal and women are allowed to have rights. As these works of art show us, especially the last one, sometimes an abortion might be the difference between life and death for the girl/woman concerned. It's important for women and girls to have choices where their own healthcare and reproductive care is concerned.
I love this channel. Had an interest and the opportunity to take an art history class in high school but ended up not doing it cause none of my friends would take it with me. Think I'm gonna have to entertain that possibility again once im done with my nursing degree. You really showed me why I had a fascination in the subject to begin with
Amazing video as always, Herrero’s work is bonechilling, thank you for sharing. I always find myself thinking: why hasn’t the algorithm picked up the canvas yet. As a honest admissions videos like this often get added to the watchlater list for me; it’s something of a perceived air of seriousness or alertness required. Which is often not necessarily the case, but it did make me think; maybe this hinders videos like this from being picked up by the algorithm. Just an idea, keep up these amazing videos, I’ve found many of my fav artist through The Canvas,, so thank you! :)
Holy cow another Quebecker making baller content online!!! I really respect your work on YT and to hear that you're from QC as well is just more icing on the cake!!
What an antidote to those right-wing "realist" artists' complaints about contemporary art. There's a lot of great "realist" art by diverse artists such as State's Rights, but are ignored by the complainants. It's like complaints about modern music; there's plenty of great music out there too often ignored by whiny listeners.
When you say right wing realist painters, who are you talking about spesifically? I'm asking because I'm not familiar with any contemporary political realist artworks.
@@nbeutler1134 There's a social problem if mainstream music is not pushing anything good. You don't live in a good society if only a few people listen to a common form of art; you just have cultural niches that don't sprout communication and discussion.
You know - TH-cam's algorithm can really suck - I'm subscribed to get all notifications and I've missed your last 6 pieces. I only saw one of those missed as a recommendation after watching someone else's - and thought "oh yeah, I love his videos!" You make my absolute favorite videos on art.
What an amazing transition in one lifetime. When I was a child the Catholic Church had a stranglehold on Quebec society and politics. Abortion would have been soundly condemned. Now less than 5 percent of Quebec people are pro life. Wonderful how things can advance!
This is the video that made me subscribe to a Patreon for the first time. I had already subscribed to you on TH-cam, but the level of analysis you give to artwork as a whole has never been so apparent as in this video (though it was close with your commentary on Ernst’s “The Failure of Surrealism”.) Thank you for all you do in this category.
the whole "art is dead" rhetoric is yet another form of the perennial "the old days were better" belief. Art today is just as valid as any time before. Those complaining about it likely aren't spending enough time making their own art, and have too much time on their hands.
The position of the hands and the figure at the root of a tree remind me of certain motifs from Buddhist iconography -- "Bhumisparsha mudra, translated as the earth touching gesture. Buddha statues with this mudra are commonly known as the "earth-witness...the former prince reached out his right hand to touch the earth as it is believed that the earth itself roared "I bear you the witness!" Hearing the roar from the earth herself, the demon king disappeared...the Bhumisparsha mudra also signifies the union of skillful means or Upaya which is well represented by the right hand touching the earth, and wisdom or Prajna, which is represented by the left hand with its palm facing upward on the lap in the meditation position. As the story tells about the earth being the witness of the Buddha's enlightenment, the Bhumisparshamudra depicts the Buddha's firm belief and effort while pursuing the path of enlightenment. It is believed that the Bhumisparsha mudra was used by Akshobhya to transform the delusion of anger into wisdom. Therefore, in Buddhism, it is believed that the Bhumisparsha mudra helps us to bring about the transformation from rage and anger to wisdom." The painting inverts this symbolism in several ways. The right hand, instead of being placed on the earth, is placed over the womb. The left palm usually depicted as resting over the lap (generally associated with offerings and grace -- "please, go ahead and cut in") is holding the coat hanger and placed on the roots of the tree. Taken together, this remixing of symbols suggests that by the knowledge of her own providence over the bodily state and skillful means at her disposal, a woman cannot be compelled to bear a child against her will. This right is not within the providence of the state, it belongs to the natural state. In the most extreme cases, a woman could end her own life to avoid bearing an unwanted child. The symbolism of the traditional iconography has Buddha saying "I will accept what is being offered me; this earth herself will bear witness to my rightfulness in being where I am." This inversion says "I will not accept what is being denied me; this body will testify to my rightfulness in rejecting your rulership." www.originalbuddhas.com/about-buddha-statues/hand-positions/bhumisparsha-mudra
i absolute love the love you put to art and to this actual history class in every video, can you do one of Joaquin Sorolla please? i wanna hear about him and his beautiful job
One thing i found out about contemporary art is when you have the tittle and the time to sit donw and just look at it, it hits you. Especially with such topics that needs to be spoken. It is sad most of people think (and others make) contemporary art is just for intelectuals that spent days studying when i fact most of the time this art speak about topics everyone (especially people who doesnt have such luck in life to be jn the topnpf the ladder) NEEDS to think and reflect about As always, beautiful and amazing videos you do ❤ thanks for sharing it (and sorry for my english)
Fantastic production on such a sensitive topic! I'm glad you chose the different time periods...today's subject matter is so elusive due to media and propaganda's blanket (and ignorance)...I am somewhat nervous trying to express certain things in the studio - due to the intensity and/or the lack of personal experience - I sometimes think I have no right to explore! - but - that is sometimes what an artist needs (?)...Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for once again having a very interesting video. I am from Quebec also and i am very pleased that at least certain of the horrors depicted will not or rarely happen. But,is a very touchy and difficul suject indeed
For a while I had a bit of a dislike for more prominent pieces/styles of contemporary art and I didn’t understand why. I thought maybe I was the problem and was being anti intellectual, but I visit local contemporary art exhibitions fairly often and genuinely enjoy them (and i am an artist myself). Then I realized that a lot of it (again, the more prominent pieces/artists) rubbed the wrong way because it’s not made for/not speaking to the average person/member of the working class. It feels like a circle jerk of the rich and some out of touch, self important academics
The problem is that by claiming her own body in this way, which in itself is a thing to strive for, she forces the other, the doctor, to become a murderer of the unborn child. The two works of art do what the subject of this video indicates: it is a catalyst for thought. However, they also portray it in a very one-sided, ego-centric way, regarding the situations in which abortion can place people in life. There are more then one human beings involved.
@@rebelliocross519fetuses are not human beings and don’t deserve the right to live at the expense of the mother if she can’t afford to have it for any number of reasons, or simply doesn’t want it. Not sure what doctor you’re talking about in a painting that clearly depicts her carrying out the operation on herself. The real murder is by the state that doesn’t allow abortion and thereby causes deaths to living women who would have to resort to an extremely dangerous solution.
@@nbeutler1134 What a retarded reasoning you are showing here, are you an animal or a human being? Okay, if you want to see it that way... Then don't f*ck if you know you can’t afford it. Why don't people take responsibility for their own actions? This is precisely what I wanted to point out. And maybe you better see the whole video before you react. There was a chair you know, that goes with a doctor. This video was talking about abortion as a subject to make people think about it. So yes, a doctor must make a good balanced consideration, but any sane doctor will choose the mother when it REALLY counts.
Silly as it sounds, it had never occurred to me to think of contemporary art through meaning. I’ve always been quite dismissive of it from an aesthetic point of view. So, thank you for the insight! As for the subject matter, I am amazed at how three different works of art can convey the same raw emotion; a feeling I have unfortunately seen in the faces of women who have gone through the procedure. Just a couple of years ago a bill was passed in my country, Argentina, to legalize abortion. It was not an easy feat and, sadly, the fight will never be over. Roe v. Wade has proven that one must keep fighting to protect our rights everywhere and everywhen.
Absolute perspective-changing facts. Thank you so much for this video, your perspective is deeply intelligent and empathetic. I look forward to showing this to my boyfriend and family.
@@mnm1273 "Late term abortions" are few in number and are medically necessary to save the life of the mother. Without legal availability, death is inevitable. "Pro Life" is often a death sentence.
@@cht2162 That's not my question. I'm not asking about late term abortions for medical necessity. I'm asking if there's a point where "a child being unwanted" stops being a good enough reason for an abortion.
Freud, to me, was a true master of his art. I have to admit though that i wonder if he didn't really like his fellow man. Some of his works, because of the colour palette, have the distinct colouring of corpses. A bit like some of Stanley Spencer's nudes. Is it a Slade School tendency?
I wish people would read these stories before forming their opinion. It seems so unfair to take away the rights of people, so often not understood by those in control of policy. It hurts
as a Contemporary artist literally doing this I disagree that contemporary has lost anything many of my pieces allegorically comment on societal issues we have today
5:30 I think I know about the ladder and the tree: it is a hint at the insane amount of jumping from high up women did to help with their abortion. I am sure she jumped down there, with the coathanger inside. And she died. Looks way too peaceful to be just sleeping. I am a woman, and I can tell you all: the pain these proceedings cause is absolutely horrific.
I think Herrero's picture depicts Eve. She has tasted the fruit of the tree "of the knowledge of good and evil", and now she must be punished. According to some, anyway.
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Interesting, i wanted to thumb down because i disagree with the narrative. My fine art background, though, actually appreciates you and them for even HAVING a narrative, that was the original use of pre neo classical. I actually didn't think it existed for that use anymore, but it looks like it does. So i guess making it neo, as its trying to classisize the contemporary.
Thank you for your thoughtful remarks and video featuring Herrero's painting!
The ladder is likely referencing social status. She's at the bottom of the ladder -- the lowest, the "poor class" -- who have the least access to safe abortion. That's likely why the woman had to do this operation on herself in the first place. She's poor, so she can't travel to where it's legal to have an abortion.
I agree but it also rings to me as a play on 'falling' pregnant. It makes this look like an injury or an accident, like she's been laid out after falling from the tree. It strips fault or responsibility from the act for me. Becoming pregnant is something that can happen so easily as an accident or against a person's will and the consequences can be so catastrophic.
I feel these are both good assessments. I was thinking the tree was an apple tree and the ladder means she has to "climb the ladder" to get access to bodily autonomy (knowledge) but she "fell". Kind of an addition to what you are saying about her financiall station in life but also her position as a woman in society.
These are really good exolanations for the ladder, but I would also like to add my own. To me it appears as if the ladder represents her departure from this world, her ascention, in other words her death. Just to point out that I am not religious and do not believe in any kind of afterlife, but this interpretation seem reasonable to me. Sorry for any spelling mistakes or incoherences:)
Good point.
I know that some pregnant women aborted by jumping several times from a certain height (from a chair or a ladder for example). These repetitive falls causes a miscarriage.
I had an aunt in Colombia that was married to an abusive alcoholic with 2 babies. She was working 2 jobs as a cleaner to support them. She ended up pregnant again. She knew she couldn’t afford to have another child, she couldn’t even afford to be pregnant and continue to work. As abortion was illegal in Colombia, she went to a back alley “partera” who went at her with a hanger. She died after a few days of immense suffering, pain and bleeding. Her children ended up technically orphaned going from couch to couch, as their father abandoned them. Abortion is healthcare and should be available to everyone. Ironic that abortion is now legal in Colombia.
Abortion bans only actually ban safe abortion.
Let's see, pink short hair, cries about abortion, cherry picks situations, you're a walking stereotype.
Should’ve left if she had 2 jobs, to prevent another pregnancy from happening in the first place 🤷
@@jaredh2246You don't seem to understand life.
Banning abortion is, in practice, a socioeconomic form of battle against the lower classes by the wealthy classes. It's only a small part of the ongoing, global class war that contemporary history shows ad infinitum.
"They" will tell us they value sanctity of life and that we don't value life. This is a smokescreen. The real value in banning abortions is increasing poverty and thereby increasing the population of poor people that the wealthy can squeeze for labor and debt. This is the real way it works.
I know I sound like a communist. I am not. If I were born in the 1900s or so, I would be an FDR New Deal Democrat. In this time of the 2020s, I'm a Green Deal, left-libertarian, without any real party to support except maybe the American Green Party. Unfortunately, the Green Party will likely never rise in power in this country that's both full of incendiary hatred towards various forms of socialism or progressivism, and also full of industry lobbyists who mindlessly seek profits over well-being.
I'm sorry for your aunt's untimely death. To me, she, her kids, and her extended family, including you, are victims of a global class war.
The comparison that came to my mind was that of a dead or wounded soldier after a battle.
This is an example for when art can make a difference and be a force for change. I'm 58 years old and I can't believe we're having this conversation again. We all thought women won. Now we're back to 1950.
Another possible explanation for the nakedness may be a rejection from society. As you said "A dangerous operation on herself, by herself, because nobody...could do it for her". In this moment she is rejected by professionals and criminalised by society. Completely and utterly isolated (if you want to extend this symbolism, she too has been aborted from the help which society promises its people). She will perform the operation on herself and recover by herself. The absence of clothing symbolises a detachment from societal conformity, since society has turned its back on her. She sees no need for clothing as she faces these struggles alone.
Amazing video, I'm actually a student under Anne and she is definitely a voice we need in the contemporary art world. She's such an inspiration, especially as a female painter myself. Her skill is truly exceptional!
The topic of this video is REALLY IMPORTANT, ENGAGING & THOUGHT-PROVOKING. For me, the MOST MOVING was Anne Herrero's "State's Rights".
I'm a 20yo male and I live in Iran and I simply can not stress how often this topic comes to my mind, despite my circumstances, one might think. On one end one takes into consideration how it may often appear as wrong to take a fetuses life, either out of necessity, or one's facilties. but when you think deeper about situations like this there not only are numerous variable where, upon similar instances, need taking into consideration. Like how long after pregnancy one may require abortion or under what circumstances was some made pregnant, ( I express as such for where I live even under most severest instances, rape, accident, genetical malformity of the baby, etc... one who is pregnant is obliged to deliver their babies), and that is, as I understand it, unbearable and unjust.
Also, seeing as how in most third-world countries, a great deal of people Oftener than intended, don't live so prosperous lives so to add an unintended baby to their long list of expenses, an unintended baby could bring disasters that are unimaginable for the whole family, unlike what is normally thought.
Exactly. I’m also 20 and I live in Brazil and abortion is banned in most cases, in theory it’s decriminalised in cases of rape or medical complications but most hospitals refuse to do them unless women go through lengthy legal battles. Two years the courts tried to force a 10 year old girl who had been raped by her uncle to carry the pregnancy to term, and when she finally managed to get a judicial permit activists doxxed her name and picture online. I honestly think banning abortion is a way of criminalising poverty. Plenty of upper/middle-class women go to neighbouring countries (like Uruguay) to get abortions but only the poor get arrested.
As an Iranian woman, I know what you're referring to. It's mandatory for women to give birth! To creat a life. Oh to be a mother is all women's desire!!! And they think all women want a child ! The miracle of life !!! If you are not in a good marriage, give birth!!!!! A child is the miracle! You have financial problems? Well dont worry a child comes with God's protection! No need to worry!!!! If you're sick mentally and physically........well, still give birth!!!!!!!!!!
When my great grandfather went to WW2 he didn't know that his wife was pregnant. She didn't want to keep the child, which is understandable ofc, so she had the hanger type of procedure, made by herself. She died. My great grandfather only found out years later when he escaped from Siberia and got home. Later he met my great grandmother. So that's how I'm here, existing and admiring your inteligent and important videos. Thank you, really, for each one of them ❤
Sex education should be mandatory. And video like this must be shown for everyone to understand the gravity of the subject.
As long as we make pregnancy and abortion just a women's problem, this heart-wrenching procedure will continue to take place.
We MUST make boys/ men take full responsibility (legally +financially) of a pregnancy they cause, as much as their partner, and teach them what pregnancy and abortion is about, as much as we teach women, as they all enter early adulthood.
To all boys/men- do no take sexual activities lightly, it has dire consequences for other human beings.
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The artwork makes me sob too. Because once meanings do set in, and you look closely, there's this pain is knowing that could be anyone.
3:58 the fact it's titled "States' Rights" gave me chills. The chair, also. The fact that we haven't come nearly as far as we ideally would in terms of recognizing womens' bodily autonomy is definitely a worthy subject of art to convey the ideas and hopelessness within. Also, a woman not being treated for cancer because of the zygote is eerily prescient, I feel I could read that sort of thing today and think "yep, that's just where we're at." I hope that art can help us not resort to past times when things were even worse.
thank you for saying the video is not unbiased, im sick of people being so obsessed with being unbiased. believe in something, be shameless and stick to it. when it comes to something like abortion, playing devils advocate does absolutely nothing but take away womens bodily autonomy.
abortion has as much to do with bodily autonomy as theft does with property rights...
we, as a culture, have already established that your liberties end with the harm of others, or as the saying goes "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose", so why is it ever justified to end a human life for the preservation of a lifestyle? is it that we, again as a culture, decided that the right to life isn't absolute? or is it that the value of some lives, no matter how innocent, is up to the beneficiary of the dependent and her relation to the convenient existence of the metaphorical benefactor?
starvation of innocent children would never be looked at as a matter of bodily autonomy if it's your duty to use your body to get up and go to the fridge. even a parent that wants to give up their duty is obligated to deliver children safely to an orphanage and not throw them out in the cold, why can't the most innocent and vulnerable among us human beings be granted the same rights as any animal would?
our posterity will look back at us the same way we look back at slave holders, where the mights (not rights) of a people is only ever possible with the continued brutal dehumanization and humiliation of life guilty of nothing other being born in the wrong place and time, and i will tell them i tried by best.
@@alibenkhalid4192As I'm sure you know, most people do not agree that an embryo _is_ "a human life," at least in the same sense as a born person.
Besides that, though, the right to life has never been absolute. Self-defense is almost universally accepted as a moral act.
@@alibenkhalid4192 will you explain why a little girl who was the victim of a violent rape, possibly even incest, and has a not small percentage of death if she gives birth, if not "just" a life plagued by bodily harm and psychological trauma/an incapacity to care for the survival of their unborn child, is less of human value, than a shapeless insentient unfeeling clump of cells the size of a safety pin for the first couple of months?
@@Spearca human life is an objective metric that isn't measured or quantified by consensus and 2+2=4 no matter how many people say otherwise.
human life starts at fertilization, that's biology 101 and over 90% of biologists confirm so.
i wish you people would see the preciousness of human life, start caring about the unborn and stop treating them as tumors that need to be extracted.
@@avosmash2121 what a mind numbing comment all around, but let me take a try at this...
if you have anger for rapists then you'd argue for the death penalty and not kill the innocent children and treat them as any less human and I'm proud to live in a country that does treat rapists like you immoral pathetic fucks treat "unwanted" innocent babies...
someone's ability to feel pain or their size or their psychological effect or even their dependancy on other people is never a reason to kill them when they're born so why the FUCK is this a reason to kill them when they're not born?? wtf goes on in the birth canal that turns what you're basically treating as a tumor into a human being that should be protected??
this is all a pathetic attempt to dehumanized living human beings so you act like they're a zit that needs to be popped or an ingrown hair that needs to be picked, they're alive by every definition of "alive" and they're human beings by every definition of "human being" so please stop wasting your time and just say parents should be able to euthanize their children if they don't want them anymore since they depend on them.
any mother that let's her babies die of hunger would go to prison and any mother that kills their child because it seemed better than giving it up for adoption and last I checked, there's a fucking waiting list of adoption and born babies are still dependent on their mother.
if you realized there are two patients that need to be taken care of then you wouldn't be here trying to argue with things I didn't fucking write or that ectopic pregnancies aren't treated medically in countries that actually have human rights.
States rights makes me think of the photo of Gerri Santoriwho was photographed in a motel room, naked and dead following an illegal termination. Thank you for this highly important episode. Living in the U.S. right now is pretty terrifying.
Roe V. Wade’s repeal is the reason I decided to go through sterilization. Technically, I still have a 1% chance of pregnancy because I still have ovaries and a uterus, just cut and sealed fallopian tubes, which even that 1% has terrified me. I’m 21 and I signed the consent for sterilization the same week as my birthday. I didn’t ever really worry about pregnancy since I’m very stringent about protection and my only sexual partner did not have the ability to knock me up. Having access to a safe abortion in case my precautions failed was a comfort I never thought about at the time but I haven’t dared to have sex since my state made it criminal for doctors to even acknowledge the procedure even exists. It’s so bad here that you can’t advertise or say condoms can be used as a birth control (aid) because it’s considered abetting abortion, they can only be labeled as STD prevention. I know just in my area the sterilization rate has spiked because pregnancy would be life ruining for so many people. Tbh, sterilization felt less like a choice and more like a necessity. Even if I chose to never have sex again, I’m part of a minority in which 1/3 of us will be raped and I’ve already been assaulted once. Lack of abortion access will only drive higher and higher permanent birth control and unsafe abortions. We’re only seeing the beginning
You are very brave to tackle this subject. Well done!
Great video. I'm glad the algorithm picked you up and sent this video to me. Thanks for making a high-quality video.
thank you so much for bringing awareness to this topic through art. living in the US right now, it feels like all of the humanity has left the conversation surrounding abortion, just finding another way to dehumanize women. i really appreciate how much grace and understanding you covered this with
I would hardly describe those against abortion as pro-life.
A few anti-choice people are sincere and consistent, and really do support all the aid to mothers and children that I expect you're thinking of.
Then there are others - I'd guess a much larger number - who are "against abortion" in the sense that they think it's morally problematic, would never have one, and want to see abortions become rarer - and support a right of legal access, recognizing that it is a sad necessity.
Recently found your channel. I live in one of most red state, Idaho and they have some the strict abortion laws. Plus we have obstetrician gynecologists' leaving our state.
Your channel makes one think, which I enjoy..
I am very appreciative of your research, and your channel's effort, as always.
people who dismiss entire bodies of media based solely on the time they were made in baffle me to no end
I think that the topic described in this video would be a great oportunity to revisit the works of Paula Rego. She was a portuguese-british painter that spend much of her career focusing on women’s rights and, more particularly, abortion rights. She made a series of paintings depicting illegal abortions after the Portugal’s 1998 referendum on abortion. The referendum aimed to legalise abortions although the law was not passed. The paintings were published in several Portuguese newspapers before a second referendum in 2007, which reversed the 1998 result, and it is thought that the paintings significantly affected the result. I think that the life and works of Paula Rego would be a great topic for a video on your channel!
Reproductive rights are a topic that is extremely close to my heart, with myself being passionately pro-choice of course. I appreciate you for making this video!
abortion has as much to do with bodily autonomy as theft does with property rights...
we, as a culture, have already established that your liberties end with the harm of others, or as the saying goes "your right to swing your fist ends at my nose", so why is it ever justified to end a human life for the preservation of a lifestyle? is it that we, again as a culture, decided that the right to life isn't absolute? or is it that the value of some lives, no matter how innocent, is up to the beneficiary of the dependent and her relation to the convenient existence of the metaphorical benefactor?
starvation of innocent children would never be looked at as a matter of bodily autonomy if it's your duty to use your body to get up and go to the fridge. even a parent that wants to give up their duty is obligated to deliver children safely to an orphanage and not throw them out in the cold, why can't the most innocent and vulnerable among us human beings be granted the same rights as any animal would?
our posterity will look back at us the same way we look back at slave holders, where the mights (not rights) of a people is only ever possible with the continued brutal dehumanization and humiliation of life guilty of nothing other being born in the wrong place and time, and i will tell them i tried by best.
@@alibenkhalid4192 If the right to life supersedes all other rights that would mean that the government could force us to donate blood, to donate organs, but it doesn't because no one can force your body to keep someone else alive, especially when that involves self-sacrifice such as giving birth
@@soupyweb that's irrelevant to the main point being the parental duty of the mother and father to keep their offspring alive, this isn't just an ethical reality but a biological reality also and unlike your hypothetical examples, fertilization, gestation and birth are natural and ordinary to the human form and do not cause the death of an innocent person (being the baby) ipso facto, someone else's inability to do so on their own on other hand are the opposite where the overwhelming effort to sustain someone's life is unnatural and therefor participatory in its nature of the action.
Assuming you're correct on the point of obligatory organ/blood donation and sacrifice the bodily autonomy of oneself to care for his children, ill answer you with a question:
What would you think of a person that let his children die because he or she doesn't like needles that are involved in the act of donating blood?
Me personally speaking, I would be for the compulsory organ/blood donation assuming fitness and long term health of the parent, but I'm also for the exception for abortion in case a mother's life is threatened, so that's irrelevant.
All three are heavy, but the first one was horrifying to me. As a final year medical student I know very well what procedures like that are supposed to look like. It couldn't be further from that. I'm really shaken, tbh
This was hard to watch, but thank you so much for making it.
Thank you for showing us these specific works of art this week and raising this often uncomfortable to think about topic. I have friends that have become pregnant and for whatever reason had an abortion. At least one of them still mourns what would have been her baby's birthday each year, but sometimes an abortion is necessary. I and my friends that have accessed the service are so lucky to live in England where abortion is legal and women are allowed to have rights. As these works of art show us, especially the last one, sometimes an abortion might be the difference between life and death for the girl/woman concerned. It's important for women and girls to have choices where their own healthcare and reproductive care is concerned.
The perfect response to that "o n e" video
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I love this channel. Had an interest and the opportunity to take an art history class in high school but ended up not doing it cause none of my friends would take it with me. Think I'm gonna have to entertain that possibility again once im done with my nursing degree. You really showed me why I had a fascination in the subject to begin with
Excellent and innovative art is still there. Thank you 🙏
Amazing video as always, Herrero’s work is bonechilling, thank you for sharing.
I always find myself thinking: why hasn’t the algorithm picked up the canvas yet.
As a honest admissions videos like this often get added to the watchlater list for me; it’s something of a perceived air of seriousness or alertness required. Which is often not necessarily the case, but it did make me think; maybe this hinders videos like this from being picked up by the algorithm.
Just an idea, keep up these amazing videos, I’ve found many of my fav artist through The Canvas,, so thank you! :)
Holy cow another Quebecker making baller content online!!! I really respect your work on YT and to hear that you're from QC as well is just more icing on the cake!!
This is such a powerful art piece, I never could've known before clicking into this video
What an antidote to those right-wing "realist" artists' complaints about contemporary art. There's a lot of great "realist" art by diverse artists such as State's Rights, but are ignored by the complainants.
It's like complaints about modern music; there's plenty of great music out there too often ignored by whiny listeners.
When you say right wing realist painters, who are you talking about spesifically? I'm asking because I'm not familiar with any contemporary political realist artworks.
Exactly. Imagine complaining about what’s on the radio when literally everyone has a smartphone and you can play whatever the fuck you want
@@ilarikoskimies4 The Nerdrum School/ School of Appelles come to mind.
@@ilarikoskimies4Art Renewal Center, founded by Fred Ross
@@nbeutler1134 There's a social problem if mainstream music is not pushing anything good. You don't live in a good society if only a few people listen to a common form of art; you just have cultural niches that don't sprout communication and discussion.
You know - TH-cam's algorithm can really suck - I'm subscribed to get all notifications and I've missed your last 6 pieces. I only saw one of those missed as a recommendation after watching someone else's - and thought "oh yeah, I love his videos!" You make my absolute favorite videos on art.
Thank you!!
What an amazing transition in one lifetime. When I was a child the Catholic Church had a stranglehold on Quebec society and politics. Abortion would have been soundly condemned. Now less than 5 percent of Quebec people are pro life. Wonderful how things can advance!
This is the video that made me subscribe to a Patreon for the first time. I had already subscribed to you on TH-cam, but the level of analysis you give to artwork as a whole has never been so apparent as in this video (though it was close with your commentary on Ernst’s “The Failure of Surrealism”.) Thank you for all you do in this category.
love watching your vids when i paint, very engaging
You should cover sculptures more, my favorite art form
the whole "art is dead" rhetoric is yet another form of the perennial "the old days were better" belief.
Art today is just as valid as any time before.
Those complaining about it likely aren't spending enough time making their own art, and have too much time on their hands.
Thank you for introducing me to this amazing powerful art
The position of the hands and the figure at the root of a tree remind me of certain motifs from Buddhist iconography --
"Bhumisparsha mudra, translated as the earth touching gesture. Buddha statues with this mudra are commonly known as the "earth-witness...the former prince reached out his right hand to touch the earth as it is believed that the earth itself roared "I bear you the witness!" Hearing the roar from the earth herself, the demon king disappeared...the Bhumisparsha mudra also signifies the union of skillful means or Upaya which is well represented by the right hand touching the earth, and wisdom or Prajna, which is represented by the left hand with its palm facing upward on the lap in the meditation position. As the story tells about the earth being the witness of the Buddha's enlightenment, the Bhumisparshamudra depicts the Buddha's firm belief and effort while pursuing the path of enlightenment. It is believed that the Bhumisparsha mudra was used by Akshobhya to transform the delusion of anger into wisdom. Therefore, in Buddhism, it is believed that the Bhumisparsha mudra helps us to bring about the transformation from rage and anger to wisdom."
The painting inverts this symbolism in several ways. The right hand, instead of being placed on the earth, is placed over the womb. The left palm usually depicted as resting over the lap (generally associated with offerings and grace -- "please, go ahead and cut in") is holding the coat hanger and placed on the roots of the tree. Taken together, this remixing of symbols suggests that by the knowledge of her own providence over the bodily state and skillful means at her disposal, a woman cannot be compelled to bear a child against her will. This right is not within the providence of the state, it belongs to the natural state. In the most extreme cases, a woman could end her own life to avoid bearing an unwanted child.
The symbolism of the traditional iconography has Buddha saying "I will accept what is being offered me; this earth herself will bear witness to my rightfulness in being where I am." This inversion says "I will not accept what is being denied me; this body will testify to my rightfulness in rejecting your rulership."
www.originalbuddhas.com/about-buddha-statues/hand-positions/bhumisparsha-mudra
i absolute love the love you put to art and to this actual history class in every video, can you do one of Joaquin Sorolla please? i wanna hear about him and his beautiful job
I really really love your channel, hope you continue do more videos like this, is amazing.
I mean, there's a lot of contemporary art, and some bad ones. It depends.
also I Hope you cover sculptures more on the channel
Great video on such an important topic 👍
One thing i found out about contemporary art is when you have the tittle and the time to sit donw and just look at it, it hits you. Especially with such topics that needs to be spoken. It is sad most of people think (and others make) contemporary art is just for intelectuals that spent days studying when i fact most of the time this art speak about topics everyone (especially people who doesnt have such luck in life to be jn the topnpf the ladder) NEEDS to think and reflect about
As always, beautiful and amazing videos you do ❤ thanks for sharing it (and sorry for my english)
Fantastic production on such a sensitive topic! I'm glad you chose the different time periods...today's subject matter is so elusive due to media and propaganda's blanket (and ignorance)...I am somewhat nervous trying to express certain things in the studio - due to the intensity and/or the lack of personal experience - I sometimes think I have no right to explore! - but - that is sometimes what an artist needs (?)...Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for once again having a very interesting video. I am from Quebec also and i am very pleased that at least certain of the horrors depicted will not or rarely happen. But,is a very touchy and difficul suject indeed
That was terrifying.
I love contemporary art so much wow
Oh I LOVE this!! Thank you so much for all you do! Amazing! ❤
Nice
For anyone interested in a literary depiction of this subject, I encourage you to read Harlan Ellison's The Resurgence of Miss Anklestrap Wedgie.
For a while I had a bit of a dislike for more prominent pieces/styles of contemporary art and I didn’t understand why. I thought maybe I was the problem and was being anti intellectual, but I visit local contemporary art exhibitions fairly often and genuinely enjoy them (and i am an artist myself). Then I realized that a lot of it (again, the more prominent pieces/artists) rubbed the wrong way because it’s not made for/not speaking to the average person/member of the working class. It feels like a circle jerk of the rich and some out of touch, self important academics
That's a huge thing for me. I agree
That was a hard watch. Very interesting
Really good episode! Some really interesting works discussed.
Another great video Canvas!
These are incredibly moving and powerful works, and so timely. Thank you for bringing them to light in this ugly era of our existence.
Thank you for showing important artwork by these to me, “unknown” artists.
You make me like art again.
Amazing video as always
link to "Is It Real? Yes, It Is!" by the Whitney Museum of American Art: th-cam.com/video/CWj5QFOETwo/w-d-xo.html
My best guess as to the meaning of the tree and ladder is that she planned to hang herself if something went wrong/she couldn't perform the abortion
Or tried to induce a miscarriage by falling from the tree.
I see the right hand on her stomach as a gesture of protection. She’s taking ownership of her own body.
The problem is that by claiming her own body in this way, which in itself is a thing to strive for, she forces the other, the doctor, to become a murderer of the unborn child.
The two works of art do what the subject of this video indicates: it is a catalyst for thought. However, they also portray it in a very one-sided, ego-centric way, regarding the situations in which abortion can place people in life. There are more then one human beings involved.
@@rebelliocross519fetuses are not human beings and don’t deserve the right to live at the expense of the mother if she can’t afford to have it for any number of reasons, or simply doesn’t want it.
Not sure what doctor you’re talking about in a painting that clearly depicts her carrying out the operation on herself.
The real murder is by the state that doesn’t allow abortion and thereby causes deaths to living women who would have to resort to an extremely dangerous solution.
@@nbeutler1134 What a retarded reasoning you are showing here, are you an animal or a human being? Okay, if you want to see it that way... Then don't f*ck if you know you can’t afford it. Why don't people take responsibility for their own actions? This is precisely what I wanted to point out.
And maybe you better see the whole video before you react. There was a chair you know, that goes with a doctor. This video was talking about abortion as a subject to make people think about it. So yes, a doctor must make a good balanced consideration, but any sane doctor will choose the mother when it REALLY counts.
Very powerful works.
Thank you!
Love your analysis 💕
Please leave a link of Withey museum clip in description.
C'est un sujet tabou mais très bien élaboré.
Silly as it sounds, it had never occurred to me to think of contemporary art through meaning. I’ve always been quite dismissive of it from an aesthetic point of view. So, thank you for the insight!
As for the subject matter, I am amazed at how three different works of art can convey the same raw emotion; a feeling I have unfortunately seen in the faces of women who have gone through the procedure. Just a couple of years ago a bill was passed in my country, Argentina, to legalize abortion. It was not an easy feat and, sadly, the fight will never be over. Roe v. Wade has proven that one must keep fighting to protect our rights everywhere and everywhen.
I love contemporary art ❤ so much fun and some are very inspiring 😊
Maybe also check, Paula Rego's work. Her work in the beginning of the.millenuim, change the abortion law and politics in Portugal.
Absolute perspective-changing facts. Thank you so much for this video, your perspective is deeply intelligent and empathetic. I look forward to showing this to my boyfriend and family.
If you want contemporary art that's good, the de Young Open in SF has a lot of amazing recent works including many truly provocative ones.
Quite a beautiful and haunting reminder of the unfortunate times we live in, for sure.
No child should have to come into a world where it is not wanted.
Do you believe in abortion after any length of pregnancy? Because the realization that a child is unwanted can happen at any time.
@@mnm1273 POST NATAL ABORTIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@mnm1273 "Late term abortions" are few in number and are medically necessary to save the life of the mother. Without legal availability, death is inevitable. "Pro Life" is often a death sentence.
@@cht2162 That's not my question. I'm not asking about late term abortions for medical necessity. I'm asking if there's a point where "a child being unwanted" stops being a good enough reason for an abortion.
I should paint you❤
Wow I didn’t know that there was a faith to be restored in contemporary art
Freud, to me, was a true master of his art. I have to admit though that i wonder if he didn't really like his fellow man. Some of his works, because of the colour palette, have the distinct colouring of corpses. A bit like some of Stanley Spencer's nudes. Is it a Slade School tendency?
More like this please!!!
I usually like art until the late 60s. Except for Baselitz and Christo maybe
You see the odalisque, you imagine what you'd do together. Well this is the potential result; the aftermath of the male gaze.
I wish people would read these stories before forming their opinion. It seems so unfair to take away the rights of people, so often not understood by those in control of policy. It hurts
as a Contemporary artist literally doing this I disagree that contemporary has lost anything many of my pieces allegorically comment on societal issues we have today
Important video
i saw the illegal operation in a museum, it was even worse in real life. even my pro-life dad stopped to look at it for a few minutes
One thing’s for sure, Herrero makes some awesome Metallica paintings.
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You can never ban abortion only safe ones
5:30 I think I know about the ladder and the tree: it is a hint at the insane amount of jumping from high up women did to help with their abortion. I am sure she jumped down there, with the coathanger inside. And she died. Looks way too peaceful to be just sleeping.
I am a woman, and I can tell you all: the pain these proceedings cause is absolutely horrific.
I think Herrero's picture depicts Eve. She has tasted the fruit of the tree "of the knowledge of good and evil", and now she must be punished. According to some, anyway.
thought provoking
Just to let you know, I have been subscribed to you for years and I had just checked AGAIN and was not subscribed AGAIN....???
Yes!
heartbreaking
The slogan "state's rights" has always represented everything vile in US history.
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