The painting was chosen on behalf <http://www.stlamerican.com/entertainment/living_it/david-pulphus-honored-by-u-s-congress-for-protest-painting/article_736171a4-286e-11e6-94dc-1f8772a8ad56.html> of Democratic Missouri Congressman Lacy Clay as part of the United States Congressional Art Competition. Pulphus’ artwork won first place in Missouri’s 1st Congressional District, so his painting now hangs in a tunnel between the Capitol building and Longworth House Office Building.
Clay praised the painting as a “colorful landscape of symbolic characters” in a press release. “The painting portrays a colorful landscape of symbolic characters representing social injustice, the tragic events in Ferguson and the lingering elements of inequality in modern American society,” the press release stated <http://www.stlamerican.com/entertainment/living_it/david-pulphus-honored-by-u-s-congress-for-protest-painting/article_736171a4-286e-11e6-94dc-1f8772a8ad56.html> . Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/29/missouri-congressman-hangs-painting-in-us-capitol-showing-own-cops-as-pigs/#ixzz4Uj84B1Rn On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 9:19:27 AM UTC-6, Travis wrote: > > > > > > > > > http://arkansasgopwing.blogspot.com/2017/01/artwork-depicting-cops-as-pigs-has-no.html > > > > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
