Three Young White Men and a Black Woman1632
Oil on canvas, 104 x 127 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Strasbourg
In this painting the history painter Van Couwenbergh illustrated an episode from an unidentified story. A white man sits at the foot of a bed holding a black woman on his lap. Both are naked.íThe woman looks frightened and is putting up a violent struggle. The man casts an amused glance at his companion on the left, who is naked but for a loincloth which he holds in place with one hand. He points at the woman and grins in our direction , as if sharing a joke with us. A third young man lifts his hands to the sky in surprise or dismay. He is a minor character, possibly a servant, and the only person who is fully dressed. A chamberpot stands on a triangular stool beside the bed.
7 comments:
WTF! Fuck who ever painted this shit. Who cares, 400 years later, still, fuck em!
That's some evil shit, yo. Man, I'm telling you, check out "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" if you want to read all about this type of stuff. That book singed my brain and made me look at our Afro-European faces a lot differently.
Nowadays, we run around thinkin' we're the shit, but back in the day, rape was as commmon as breakfast. It's really hard to imagine. The Duke boys were just the tip of the iceberg.
Big J
"Bullwhip Days" is another one J...makes your stomach turn kinda stuff.
and then there's this most interesting sista.
Kara Walker
renegade.
http://visualarts.walkerart.org/detail.wac?id=2734&title=upcoming%20exhibitions
and here:
http://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker
Great find DV
I don't know if that Al Jazeera guy was throwing soft balls or what, but he sounded no different than a Mike Wallace.
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