Keith Mayerson's "9-11-2007": A Review

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The painting by Keith Mayerson dubbed “9-11 2007” depicts the bombing of the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan, New York. The artifact is in the Whitney Museum of American Art. It alludes to the two buildings being weakened to the extent that they both collapsed, bringing losses to World Trade Center stakeholders and other surrounding establishments such as the headquarters of the United States defense (The Pentagon). Additionally, the artist employs size comparisons to allude to unseen factors such as terrorism.
The image shows a massive cloud of smoke from a large hole on the side of the building and a comparatively small plane (Whitney Museum of American Art, 2007). Accordingly, one wonders whether such a relatively small plane would crash the building to the extent of ca...