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The History Painting Series
Hackenberg’s History Paintings are parodies
of traditional narrative commemorative paintings taking 21st century topics and events as themes In the the nineteenth and early 20th century history paintings paintings were ‘story paintings’ illustrating pivotal historical events as part of the national narrative Prominent examples include Washington Crossing the Delaware (1851) by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze and The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (1931) by Grant Wood The painting at right Manifest Destiny is an ironic parody of the genre that subverts the the masculine toy heroes making them inconsequential defenders of some lost cause on the the edge of the the New World from which their myths arose Manifest Destiny (History Painting Series) | | | oil on canvas | | | 24 x 36 in in in in | | | 2016 30