Last week two statues unveiled to honor
George Floydwere vandalized in Brooklyn, New York, and Newark, New Jersey. The defacement of the statues came as the nation awaited former Minneapolis officer
Derek Chauvin’ssentencing for killing Floyd in May of 2020 after kneeling on his neck for nearly 10 minutes.
A George Floyd statue was defaced by four suspects in Brooklyn: (Photos: ABC7, NYPD)
The George Floyd statue that was unveiled on Juneteenth at 1545 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn was discovered to be vandalized Thursday morning. The statue was spray-painted black and the white supremacist group name “Patriot Front” was stenciled on the base on the bust.
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Back in the olden days, the Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin noted that “Not all things are possible at all times.”
Wölfflin was talking about historical constraints in the realm of artistic style.
Mondrian’s abstractions, for example, wouldn’t have been possible in the age of Rubens.
The point can be generalized.
Last summer, it was open season on statues and other monuments.
In June 2020, 1,000 people gathered at Byrd Park in Richmond, Virginia, “to stand in solidarity with indigenous peoples.” That day, the object of their wrath was an eight-foot statue of Christopher Columbus, which they toppled and dragged to a nearby lake for disposal.
According to police, Floyd's face and the inscription were spraypainted black. The words "Patriot Front" were sprayed in white over the gold lettering on the side of the statue.
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