This article explores the parallels between a 3000-year-old Phoenician statue of the god Melqart and Banksy's 2003 artwork depicting a masked protester holding a bouquet of flowers. Both figures symbolize the duality of power and peace, highlighting the complexities of conflict and resistance.
Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.Lost your password? Please enter your username or email address. You will receive a link to create a new password via email.An intensely focused figure, fashioned from darkest shadow, shifts his weight to his back foot as he prepares to leverage the full elastic force of his body’s frame to unleash what is clenched in his cocked fist.
The figure that I have in mind, a votive statue of the Phoenician god Melqart, prefigures by some 14 centuries the fully flexed physique of Banksy’s pseudo-self-portrait, which appeared in 2003 in a Palestinian town near Bethlehem, a stone’s throw from the wall that separates Israel from the West Bank territories of Palestine.
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