The piece above is by Faith Ringgold. It is called "Die Nigger, Flag for the Moon" and it is an oil painting on canvas from 1969. It clearly challenges the viewer to see the world in a new way because it takes a positive image that normally instills a sense of pride (the American flag) and reshapes and reforms it into something that displays a derogatory term and projects a very negative image. This challenges the ideas of what the American flag truly represents and causes viewers to think about how they think of the flag.
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