Where this mural is considered controversial and the man who painted it was beaten up.
The mural has offended a couple of Danes at a bar. It was painted by the man who created the famous "Hope" poster during the 2008 campaigns in America. "The men called him 'Obama illuminati' and ordered him to 'go back to America'."
The LA-based artist believes the attack was sparked by a misunderstanding over his mural commemorating the demolition of the legendary "Ungdomshuset" (youth house) at Jagtvej 69. The building, a long-term base for Copenhagen's leftwing community, was controversially demolished in 2007. In the intervening years it has become a potent symbol of the standoff between the establishment in Copenhagen and its radical fringe.[...]
[The] mural appeared to reopen old wounds, with critics accusing Fairey of peddling government-funded propaganda.
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[S]aid local activist Eskil Andreas Halberg in a letter to Modkraft, a leftwing news website. "The art is being used politically to end the conflict in a certain way: 'we're all friends now, right?'"
Peace as government propaganda.
And to think a Dane in Caracas told me after the re-election of George Bush that Danes think Americans are crazy.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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