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It was Sonia Sanchez who said, “The black artist is dangerous. Black art controls the “Negro’s” reality, negates negative influences, and creates positive images.” 

Black contemporary art has met resistance from the white dominated art world. An arena that limited itself from a diverse aesthetic of culture and vibrancy. Galleries of “white walls, with white people, drinking white wine.” 

1. Achilles dragging Hector’s Corpse 

2. Þórr punting Lítr the dwarf over Baldr´s funeral pyre

3. Visigoths sack Rome in 400s

4. Haraldr Hardrada’s death at the battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066

5. Tomyris of the Massagetae beheading Cyrus the Great for killing her son

6. Gallic leader Vercingetorix surrendering to Julius Caesar

7. The stabbing of Caesar

8. Leader of the Iceni tribe Boudica drinking poison in face of Roman defeat

9. The burning of Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orléans

10. This dude with a knife in his head…