{"id":45972,"date":"2022-09-05T14:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=45972"},"modified":"2022-09-05T14:14:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T11:14:42","slug":"australian-artist-paints-over-mural-with-ukrainian-and-russian-soldiers-hugging-after-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/?p=45972","title":{"rendered":"Australian artist paints over mural with Ukrainian and Russian soldiers hugging after criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 5  September . 2022 | Society.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Australian artist Peter Seaton painted on the wall of a house in Melbourne a Ukrainian and a Russian soldier, who are depicted in an embrace.\u00a0However, due to the negative reaction of the public, he had to paint over the mural.\u00a0This was\u00a0reported\u00a0by the Russian BBC service .\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Details<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the artist, his work symbolized a call for a peaceful settlement of relations between the two countries, and he did not want to hurt anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seaton apologized for his work and emphasized that he did not think &#8220;that it would be so badly received&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critics said that this picture shows a false moral equality of the two sides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Quote<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;What would people think if the mural depicted a rapist and a victim hugging?&#8221; said Stefan Romaniv, co-chairman of the Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia Vasyl Miroshnychenko called Seaton&#8217;s work &#8220;extremely offensive to all Ukrainians.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Source : Ukrgate<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KYIV.\u00a0UkraineGate . 5 September . 2022 | Society. \u00a0Australian artist Peter Seaton painted on the wall of a house in Melbourne a Ukrainian and a Russian soldier, who are depicted in an embrace.\u00a0However, due to the negative reaction of the public, he had to paint over the mural.\u00a0This was\u00a0reported\u00a0by the Russian BBC service .\u00a0 Details [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":45973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10750,11447,16],"tags":[647,813,996,1000,1024,1064,1854],"class_list":["post-45972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-political-news","category-society","category-ukraine-news","tag-mural","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-ukraine-news","tag-ukrgate","tag-war","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45986,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45972\/revisions\/45986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ukrgate.com\/eng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}