ROBERT
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(500 Years Of What?) 1990, Oil and sand on canvas 40 " X 80" / 101,6 cm. X 203,2 cm. Under the weight of the colonial yoke, half Spanish flag and half forty-five star U.S. flag (1898), a prostrate jíbaro (Puerto Rican peasant) bows over a loaf of bread in an arid and seamless landscape. To his left lies a Spanish morion, to his right a U.S. helmet - symbols of imperial militarism past and present - next to a solitary coffee plant and sugarcane stalk respectively. Together with a distant abandoned oxcart, they represent the state of native industry, unemployment, and emigration. A halo in the form of an infinity symbol floats over the jíbaro's head while a paper on the ground proclaims a quincentennial of colonial rule: 1493 - 1993. |
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