Emergency Room by Robert Colescott

Robert Colescott is an American artist who is known for his “satirical genre and crowd subjects, often conveying his exuberant, comical, or bitter reflections on being African-American”.  Colescott has voiced his opinions many times about stereotypes through his artwork since the 1960’s.  In his depiction of Emergency Room, Colescott shows a chaotic emergency room and how it is "a vivid allegory for the whole country."    In this painting he has many things that allude to others.  The main thing that stuck out to me was the lack of women.  Not that there are no woman but one is a nurse and the other is represented by nothing more than a brick wall.  It is said that Colescott did this to portray woman as being part of violence and harassment.  I believe that this is a statement piece.  Its main point is to draw attention to issues and not just be colors on a canvas.