Thursday, January 8, 2015

Art by Lucille Clerc



Lucille Clerc is the creator of the three-pencil tribute to Charlie Hebdo. The story is here. Clerc posted this image (no filter) to Instagram with the caption, “Break one, thousand will rise.”

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Daughter Number Three said...

Amazing how fast that got around as being by Banksy. I guess it started because a fake Banksy account on Twitter posted it.

Michael Leddy said...

Yes, I first wrote “whoever made it.” It’s so easy to want to take things at face value.

Frex said...

Looking at this again, I am reminded of this quote I love:
"The best antidote to bad speech is not censorship, but more speech."
Nat Hentoff, journalist and civil libertarian

--Frex/Fresca