A mural of a struggling child with a knife to his neck is painted on the wall of a house in Brussels. Inspired by Caravaggio and Dutch master paintings, an anonymous street artist created two murals in Brussels over the weekend, prompting complaints from residents. (GEERT VANDEN WIJNGAERT / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Brussels residents upset over shocking, gory street art
The two controversial murals are inspired by 17th century paintings, although complaints from parents and residents are rolling in.
BRUSSELS ”A struggling child with a blade to his neck awaiting slaughter. A gutted body hanging upside down as blood seeps out. In Brussels these days, it’s called street art ” and names far less flattering.
“Hellish and awful,” Nicole Brisard grumbled as she walked her dog, Max, past the bleeding corpse rendered in paint on seven stories of a low-rent apartment building. “And all we wish for is to have something better, out of respect for the people.”
The two murals that appeared last weekend have made their anonymous artist the talk of the European capital, posing a familiar question about art expressly created to provoke: how far can it go before the outrage becomes unacceptable?
Both the wall painting eliciting Brisard’s ire and the companion mural across town of a child facing death are oversized adaptations of details from well-known 17th century art works, “The Corpses of the De Witt Brothers” by Dutch master Jan de Baen and Caravaggio’s “Sacrifice of Isaac.”
The originals, respectively based on a historical, political murder and the Old Testament, are held by Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and the equally hallowed Uffizi in Florence.
Some parents in the grimy, gentrifying neighbourhood where the basketball court-sized mural of Isaac howling in fear is located have complained that children are having trouble sleeping because of the terrifying sight outside their windows.
“Lots of parents would not like that,” Brussels alderwoman Ans Persoons said.
It is almost as shocking to think they were painted on a few bitterly cold nights in Brussels while dangling down a rope and staying out of sight of authorities.
Many art insiders suspect the painter behind the murals is the same one who created huge frescoes of human genitalia a few months ago.
The public outcry that greeted those in-your-face anatomical parts may have inspired the artist to try again with a historic twist, said Bjorn Van Poucke, curator of the Crystal Ship, a major European street art festival on the Belgian coast.
“The artist is trying to give the public an answer to all of these people talking in the press,” about the genital murals, Van Poucke said. “So he actually says with these last two works that if you still think these are shocking, please be aware that it is inspired by two historical paintings over 400 years old.”
Despite the murals’ many critics, they also have attracted attention due to the mystery of the artist’s identity. Van Poucke said remaining anonymous is probably wise. What is art for some is trespassing and abusing and damaging property for others, infractions that could carry fines and other costs of up to 25,000 euros ($25,000.)
So even if they are strictly illegal, the murals do give the city a certain amount of the street cred it craves. Brussels wants to be “this creative, artistic, urban city that people want to come and visit of course,” Persoons said.
But the complaints keep pouring in.
“Some people say, ˜Yeah, it really has to stay,’ but then you ask them ˜What would you think if you had the same violent image in front of the school of your children or in front of the bedroom of your children?’ and they say “Ooh, I would not like it,'” she said. “And that makes it interesting art.”
Caught between the love of art and the concerns of citizens, Persoons favours keeping them on show. “For now on we are going to let it be,” she said.
Brisard took another look at De Witt and disagreed.
“The mentality of madmen,” she scoffed before walking off with Max.
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Remember when I said here that the Chicago Tribune around late 2004 – early 2005 ran a photo of G.W. Bush and his family, including his son Jeffrey, at a gala re-election party, and that the son looked exactly like “Dylann Roof”? Remember how I said that the son looked somehow “evil” to me, but then I realized that he must be autistic, which is why they kept him completely out of public view? Well, here ya go:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-dylann-roof-said-death-better-autism-label-220017622.html
So are you saying Dubya has a mystery child in addition to his two daughters, Barbara and Jenna?
(l-t-r) Laura, Dubya, Barbra, Jenna and her husband, Henry Hager, and their daughters
What is bizarre about Henry Chase Hager is he looks just like Dubya’s son.#
Bizarre side note regarding the supposed father of Henry:
(From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Hager)
In 1973 he contracted polio when his son was vaccinated for the disease with live virus vaccine.[3] As a result, he uses a nonmotorized wheelchair for daily ambulation – and competes in wheelchair races.[6]
Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying – there was a photograph in the Chicago Tribune sometime between Nov. 2nd, 2004 and Jan. 20th, 2005 of the whole G.W. Bush family at some reelection party. The photograph’s caption listed all the family members and said something like “… his son Jeff” or “… his son Jeffrey.” The son looked EXACTLY like “Dylann Roof,” and I’m convinced that “Dylann Roof” is actually G.W. Bush’s mystery autistic son, playing a needed role for the NWO.
I’m still kicking myself for not saving that photograph, but I figured at the time that we’d be hearing a lot more about G.W. Bush’s previously unknown son, so I didn’t think it was a big deal at the time. Whether they will actually execute “Roof” as part of an Illuminati sacrifice agreed to by G.W. Bush, or sneak him out the back door to another country, is the question in my mind.
See below – the very, very, very odd arrest of “Dylann Roof.” The cops also brought him food from Burger King right after this arrest. These Charleston cops are all Freemasons who knew exactly what was really going on, hence their casual unconcern and deferential treatment of “Roof”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_77laSEQv4