Les Demoiselles De Moi Seul The Pimping Of Afrodite
by David G Wilson
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43.000 x 53.000 inches
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Title
Les Demoiselles De Moi Seul The Pimping Of Afrodite
Artist
David G Wilson
Medium
Painting - Acrylic On Canvas
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This is my response to Picasso's " Les Demoiselles d'Avignon". Pablo Picasso appropriated African aesthetics in the creation of cubism, a fact which he later denied, supported by many art historians, although many have acknowledged it.
However, this piece is not a parody of Picasso's image, but a challenge that reflects the depreciation of African people by the institution of slavery and its subsequent progeny. It is a form of deprecation that devalued the African by an equation to chattel (3/5 of a human being and objects to be bought and sold).
Central to the theme of this painting itself are the deployment and resulting effect of religion on a white platter shaped like a cross used in the subjugation of African people. The outcome of this deprecation is an insidious self-loathing and rejection of Afrocentric standards of beauty by some people of African descent. The evidence can be seen today in the bleaching of melanin, straightening of hair and general adoption of criteria of beauty foreign to African standards. In that regard, we see an obsessive adoption of standards of beauty that approximate the images of a Eurocentric Jesus surreptitiously introduced as proof of African inferiority that supposedly belies the innate beauty of our African being.
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