ARTH 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Women In Algeria, The Holy Virgin Mary, Chris Ofili
25 Jan 2018
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October 4, 2016 the subject matter changed in modern life: busy streets, prostitution, poster art the style of colours, dimensions, and brushstrokes changed as the artists wanted to change the styles that preceded them. Colonization: racism and colonization thought were reflected in art below. Virgin yet this is his purpose because he wants to offend the white with the virgin conveying how they offend him in their portrayal of the black. European artists were taking from other cultures without giving the original culture getting any credit. The lines and form were a more direct artistic expression. The term other was said to speak of the non-europeans who were considered inhuman: women were more connected to nature and their biology because they can procreate etc. Hottentot venus, saartje baartman: a black woman from africa was taken and shown as a freak show in europe in the 1800s as. Her brain and genitalia were taken and studied.
