Image Of The Black In Western Art Volume 4

The Image of The Black In Western Art Volumes 4 part 1

• The images tend to use Black people as props or propaganda
• Lost of Glory day Empire Bullshit Britain was really big on depicting themselves as a savior. Comes int that white savior complex but for a whole country. 
• Big use of composition to show black inferiority.
• Also exaggeration of the black features to dehumanize
• All in all just really emphasizing my points made in last essay about the use of art to dehumanize the black to maintain the concept of white superiority within western Europe and the Americas. 
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Francesco Pezzicar's Statue of a freed slave at the Centennial Exhibition (1876) 

• This statue was slated by critics because the Man depicted was both active in his own freedom and had an expression of triumphant pride, which angered american art critics because they believed the man should look more humble and submissive. 

The Image of The Black In Western Art Volumes 4 part 2

Image Of Otherness

The Anonymity of the subject links this work with a number of portraits heads of the black's painted.

Gets rid of a sense of individuality 

There seems to be a big rise in the sexualisation and fetishisation of the black woman in art in the 19th century.  To Quote " By this date the physical allure of black women for white men was more readily admitted than before' (1989) 

Creepy Quote Of The Day : 'A Beauty that charms you, that makes you wish that the marble was a live woman" ( Castantino, 1877, statue fucker)

Using a white Cleopatra to represent Luxury and black servants to Juxtapose with their 'Savagery'.