Loading...

"The Taliban have started replacing murals on Kabul’s streets with paintings of their flags and Islamic slogans.... The murals addressed everything from the killing of George Floyd in the US and the drowning of Afghan refugees in Iran..." - Hallo friend WELCOME TO AMERICA, In the article you read this time with the title "The Taliban have started replacing murals on Kabul’s streets with paintings of their flags and Islamic slogans.... The murals addressed everything from the killing of George Floyd in the US and the drowning of Afghan refugees in Iran...", we have prepared well for this article you read and download the information therein. hopefully fill posts Article AMERICA, Article CULTURAL, Article ECONOMIC, Article POLITICAL, Article SECURITY, Article SOCCER, Article SOCIAL, we write this you can understand. Well, happy reading.

Title : "The Taliban have started replacing murals on Kabul’s streets with paintings of their flags and Islamic slogans.... The murals addressed everything from the killing of George Floyd in the US and the drowning of Afghan refugees in Iran..."
link : "The Taliban have started replacing murals on Kabul’s streets with paintings of their flags and Islamic slogans.... The murals addressed everything from the killing of George Floyd in the US and the drowning of Afghan refugees in Iran..."

"The Taliban have started replacing murals on Kabul’s streets with paintings of their flags and Islamic slogans.... The murals addressed everything from the killing of George Floyd in the US and the drowning of Afghan refugees in Iran..."

"... to the signing of the US-Taliban agreement towards peace and murder of a Japanese aid worker. 'Artlords,' a group of creatives, painted the murals on walls and blast barriers, spending eight years transforming swathes of Kabul until the Taliban marched in....  'All of the murals are an extension of me, extension of Artlords and extension of the artists who worked on them,' [said Omaid Sharifi, the art group’s co-founder]. 'Some of these murals were the soul of Kabul. They gave beauty to the city and kindness to the people of Kabul who were suffering.... These are about the wishes, demands and the asks of Afghan people. It was their voice on these walls.... Our aim was to promote critical thinking and put pressure on the government to accept people’s demands.... There is no vocabulary about art in the Taliban’s dictionary. They even cannot imagine art. I think they don’t understand it, that’s why they are destroying it.'"

From "'The soul of Kabul: Taliban paint over murals with victory slogans/Works including celebration of killed aid worker and signing of peace agreement are replaced" (The Guardian).

I think that many people who can "imagine art" would still have trouble understanding the specifics of these murals. Why should public art in Kabul show George Floyd? 

Here's a Guardian article from last year, "Artlords, not warlords – how Kabul's artists battle for the streets/Muralists are covering the Afghan capital’s blast walls with agitprop imagery and calling out corruption":

Kabul’s green zone, a highly fortified area home to embassies and news agencies, is surrounded by tall, heavy walls. Since 2014, Artlords – a word play on warlords and drug lords, of which Afghanistan has many – a collective of artists and volunteers, has put some of the country’s politics into paintings, aiming to reflect the city’s atmosphere. 

“We want to turn public opinion into murals, that’s why we paint what we hear on the streets,” explained Abrar Kakarr, Artlords’ programme manager. “We don’t want to offend, we want to criticise."... 

[T]he group has painted almost 2,000 murals in 19 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. Some work has been commissioned by UN agencies and embassies to raise awareness about the development agenda. But other independent pieces are aimed at stirring political debate. The group – now mainly funded by international donors – has faced praise and criticism. Some have questioned whether beautifying explosion-proof walls denies their purpose and the continuing war in the city, but Artlords has said it will continue to promote messages of peace and social justice, as well as use its work to target alleged government corruption.  

"... to the signing of the US-Taliban agreement towards peace and murder of a Japanese aid worker. 'Artlords,' a group of creatives, painted the murals on walls and blast barriers, spending eight years transforming swathes of Kabul until the Taliban marched in....  'All of the murals are an extension of me, extension of Artlords and extension of the artists who worked on them,' [said Omaid Sharifi, the art group’s co-founder]. 'Some of these murals were the soul of Kabul. They gave beauty to the city and kindness to the people of Kabul who were suffering.... These are about the wishes, demands and the asks of Afghan people. It was their voice on these walls.... Our aim was to promote critical thinking and put pressure on the government to accept people’s demands.... There is no vocabulary about art in the Taliban’s dictionary. They even cannot imagine art. I think they don’t understand it, that’s why they are destroying it.'"

From "'The soul of Kabul: Taliban paint over murals with victory slogans/Works including celebration of killed aid worker and signing of peace agreement are replaced" (The Guardian).

I think that many people who can "imagine art" would still have trouble understanding the specifics of these murals. Why should public art in Kabul show George Floyd? 

Here's a Guardian article from last year, "Artlords, not warlords – how Kabul's artists battle

Loading...

for the streets/Muralists are covering the Afghan capital’s blast walls with agitprop imagery and calling out corruption":

Kabul’s green zone, a highly fortified area home to embassies and news agencies, is surrounded by tall, heavy walls. Since 2014, Artlords – a word play on warlords and drug lords, of which Afghanistan has many – a collective of artists and volunteers, has put some of the country’s politics into paintings, aiming to reflect the city’s atmosphere. 

“We want to turn public opinion into murals, that’s why we paint what we hear on the streets,” explained Abrar Kakarr, Artlords’ programme manager. “We don’t want to offend, we want to criticise."... 

[T]he group has painted almost 2,000 murals in 19 of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces. Some work has been commissioned by UN agencies and embassies to raise awareness about the development agenda. But other independent pieces are aimed at stirring political debate. The group – now mainly funded by international donors – has faced praise and criticism. Some have questioned whether beautifying explosion-proof walls denies their purpose and the continuing war in the city, but Artlords has said it will continue to promote messages of peace and social justice, as well as use its work to target alleged government corruption.  

Thus articles "The Taliban have started replacing murals on Kabul’s streets with paintings of their flags and Islamic slogans.... The murals addressed everything from the killing of George Floyd in the US and the drowning of Afghan refugees in Iran..."

that is all articles "The Taliban have started replacing murals on Kabul’s streets with paintings of their flags and Islamic slogans.... The murals addressed everything from the killing of George Floyd in the US and the drowning of Afghan refugees in Iran..." This time, hopefully can provide benefits to all of you. Okay, see you in another article posting.

You now read the article "The Taliban have started replacing murals on Kabul’s streets with paintings of their flags and Islamic slogans.... The murals addressed everything from the killing of George Floyd in the US and the drowning of Afghan refugees in Iran..." with the link address https://welcometoamerican.blogspot.com/2021/09/the-taliban-have-started-replacing.html

Tweet

Subscribe to receive free email updates: