Make Americas Great Again for Russia
| Make Everything Great Again | |
|---|---|
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| Artist | Dominykas Čečkauskas, Mindaugas Bonanu |
| Twelvemonth | 2016 (2016) |
| Type | Street art |
| Dimensions | 250 cm × 450 cm (98 in × 177 in) |
| Condition | Painted over |
| Location | Vilnius, Lithuania |
| Website | Official website |
Make Everything Great Once more was a street art mural by artists Dominykas Čečkauskas and Mindaugas Bonanu.[i] [two] [three] It was located on the wall of the barbecue restaurant Keulė Rūkė (Lithuanian for "Smoking Hog" (literal translation "The pig was smoking")) in the railway station area of old boondocks of Vilnius in Lithuania.[two] [3]
The landscape depicting then U.Southward. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump giving a congenial kiss to the Russian president Vladimir Putin was made known to the broad public on 13 May 2016. The explanation Make Everything Great Again plays on Trump'south campaign slogan "Brand America Great Again".[iv]
The Keulė Rūkė restaurant closed its doors in October 2019.[5] Since July 2019, the mural was reported to have been painted over with a message "make empathy great over again", although a small version of the original landscape remained on a wall in the inner courtyard of the building.[half-dozen] [7]
History [edit]
Groundwork [edit]
The artwork was first unveiled on 13 May 2016.[8] Brand Everything Not bad Again appeared on the wall after Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump exchanged statements of mutual adoration, with the President of Russia describing Donald Trump as "a very colorful person, talented without any doubt,"[1] [ix] [10] with Donald Trump replying that information technology was "a great honor to be so nicely complimented by a man so highly respected inside his ain country and beyond."[9] [11]
Inspiration [edit]
The image drew inspiration from photographs from 1979 of Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker kissing as part of the socialist fraternal greeting which in turn inspired the 1990 graffiti painting My God, Assist Me to Survive This Deadly Love portrayed on the Berlin Wall by Dmitri Vrubel.[2] [3] [12]
I of the artists, Dominykas Čečkauskas, owned the restaurant that had asked for the artwork.[1] [9] [12] He said in an interview: "We saw similarities betwixt the two heroes (Trump and Putin). ... They both have an ego that is too big, and it is funny that they get forth well." Čečkauskas said "We are in a sort of a Cold State of war again, and America may get a president who will want to be friends with Russian federation."[13] The artists, with the help of the mural, predict that if Russia and the US would ever "make out, it would happen in the Baltic states ... with tongues or with tanks.".[14] The other artist, Mindaugas Bonanu, has stated that the kiss is not necessarily homoerotic. "I retrieve there's goose egg gay nearly them. They are kissing, right, similar a Soviet Marriage thing; I remember it's more than about the past. But a lot of people particularly in the U.s. don't know the history," he has been cited as maxim.[xv]
Vandalism and restoration [edit]
In August 2016, the mural was defaced past unknown individuals with white pigment.[16]
Government reaction [edit]
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius emphasized the values of civil liberties in his urban center in a statement to Lithuanian media organization LTnews.net: "At that place is no censorship in our city. That's why I back up the idea of making this graffiti. Information technology shows that Vilnius is the metropolis of freedom, love and beauty."[17] Šimašius further remarked on a post to his Facebook: "Vilnius is a city of freedom, where we don't have to exist agape of weapon rattling only several dozen kilometres away and express what nosotros believe in without censorship."[17]
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The work rapidly became pop and commented upon both within its abode country and in global newspapers.[9] [2] [three] BBC News commented, "Once the initial shock has passed of seeing such testosterone-fuelled survivors of Cold War tension kissing, a closer look at the landscape reveals a level of subtle political commentary that cuts confronting the superficial sensation."[18] Esquire called it "a provocative mural, to say the to the lowest degree."[four] Marketplace Watch noted the mural had the impact of "sending a few ripples across the earth."[19]
References [edit]
- ^ a b c Johnston, Jules (14 May 2016), "Donald Trump kisses Vladimir Putin on wall of Lithuanian eatery", Politico , retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ a b c d Taylor, Adam (xvi May 2016), "This artist's interpretation of Putin and Trump kissing cannot be unseen", The Independent, archived from the original on twenty August 2016, retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ a b c d Krupkin, Taly (18 May 2016), "Graffiti of Trump Passionately Kissing Putin Goes Viral", Haaretz , retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ a b Griffin, Elizabeth (15 May 2016), "Hither'south Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Kissing", Esquire , retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ "Keulė Rūkė". Keulė Rūkė - Facebook. 31 January 2019. Retrieved half dozen June 2020.
- ^ "It's gone .... - Review of Putin/Trump Landscape, Vilnius, Lithuania". Tripadvisor . Retrieved vi June 2020.
- ^ "Вместо граффити с Путиным и Трампом в Вильнюсе появился новый рисунок" [A new drawing has appeared in the identify of the graffiti of Trump and Putin in Vilnius]. www.obzor.lt (in Russian). 22 July 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
- ^ Moran, Lee (sixteen May 2016), "Donald Trump And Vladimir Putin Will Not Like This Street Fine art Mural", The Huffington Post , retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ a b c d Neidig, Harper (xiv May 2016), "Mural of Trump kissing Putin goes viral", The Colina , retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ Diamond, Jeremy; Botelho, Greg (18 Dec 2015), "Putin praises 'bright and talented' Trump", CNN , retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ Worland, Justin (17 December 2015), "Donald Trump Calls Putin Compliment a 'Great Honor'", Time , retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ a b della Cava, Marco (xv May 2016), "Putin kissing Trump mural goes viral", U.s.a. Today , retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ Taylor, Adam (13 May 2016), "The Putin-Trump kiss being shared around the globe", The Washington Mail service , retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ Prince, Lauren (fourteen May 2016), "Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin Lock Lips in Lithuanian Street Fine art", NBC News , retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ Naylor, Aliide (8 August 2018), "The Strange Roots of the Homophobic Trump-Putin Kissing Meme", Frieze , retrieved 19 September 2019
- ^ Shearlaw, Maeve (12 Baronial 2016). "Vandals conscience prototype of Putin snogging Trump in Lithuania". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved vi June 2020.
- ^ a b "Trump-Putin kiss makes Vilnius 'city of love' – mayor, Delfi", The Lithuania Tribune, 16 May 2016, retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ Grovier, Kelly (xviii May 2016), "What does the Trump/Putin kiss really mean?", BBC News, BBC, retrieved 12 June 2017
- ^ Coffey, Michelle (fourteen May 2016), "A landscape of Trump kissing Putin on the lips is being shared everywhere", Market Lookout man , retrieved 12 June 2017
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Everything_Great_Again
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