Study the pаinting, Icоn fоr а New Empire, аs well as the artist's biоgraphy below. Offer a contextualized close reading, using all your skills you have acquired including literary criticism (293-299) -AND- the guide on page 97 of your textbook as a guide. Pay attention to colors, titles, imagery, symbolism, hidden meanings. What do you believe the artist is trying to convey in this piece? Your analysis should include a variety of key points and observations that go beyond surface level meaning, and should be no less than 100-150 words. "KENT MONKMAN (b. 1965) is an interdisciplinary Cree visual artist. A member of ocêkwi sîpiy (Fisher River Cree Nation) in Treaty 5 Territory (Manitoba, Canada), he lives and works between New York City and Toronto. Known for his provocative interventions into Western European and American art history, Monkman explores themes of colonization, sexuality, loss, and resilience—the complexities of historic and contemporary Indigenous experiences—across painting, film/video, performance, and installation. Monkman’s gender-fluid alter ego Miss Chief Eagle Testickle often appears in his work as a time-travelling, shape-shifting, supernatural being who reverses the colonial gaze to challenge received notions of history and Indigenous peoples. Monkman’s artworks are held in the permanent collections of numerous institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Denver Art Museum; the Hirshhorn Museum; the Hood Museum of Art; the Heard Museum; Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal; the Glenbow Museum; the Art Gallery of Ontario; and macLYON. Private collections that house his works include Art Bridges; the Horseman Foundation; the Tia Collection, the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation; Forge Project; the Gochman Family Collection; the Sobey Art Foundation; and the Rob & Monique Sobey Foundation. His works have been exhibited at institutions such as the Royal Ontario Museum; Louvre-Lens; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Hayward Gallery; Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art; Musée d’art Contemporain de Rochechouart; the Philbrook Museum of Art; Palais de Tokyo; and the Hood Museum at Dartmouth College. In 2019, Monkman was commissioned as the inaugural artist to make two monumental paintings for The Met’s Great Hall Commission project. He has created other site-specific performances at the Royal Ontario Museum; Compton Verney, Warwickshire; and the Denver Art Museum. Monkman has had two nationally touring solo exhibitions in Canada: Shame and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience (2017–2020) and The Triumph of Mischief (2007–2010). In 2025, Monkman’s first internationally touring large-scale solo exhibition History is Painted by the Victors opened at the Denver Art Museum and the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal." Icon for a New Empire, 2007, Kent Monkman