come away with bee

[another time because this white dude from Belgian in 2015 coming through with the ‘court from the crystal palace” series…  - from an essay by Faith Ringgold in the book, Black Dolls: “Traditionally, dolls that emulate a particular race are meant to depict the best image of that ethnicity. African Americans dolls were denied this depiction as they were reflective of the people who enslaved them rather than of their own indigenous physical characteristics. These inherent differences in appearances are what make African art so magnificent. African sculptural and decorative forms provided the basis for the modern art movements of the early 1900s. Not only did Westerners take Africans as slaves, they also took their art; it served as the basis for the Modernist abstractions of Braque, Picasso, and Matisse, among others.” how is this not neoFauvism and neocolonial? oh wait, it is….]

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