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by David G Wilson
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Our lightweight, microfiber tapestries are available in three different sizes and feature incredible artwork to complement any wall space. Each tapestry has hemmed edges for secure hanging with nails and/or thumbtacks.
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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... more
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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 o...
I am exhausting tremendous efforts in trying to depict a spacial dimension that is inclusive of the third and supported by a two dimensional surface. It is a dimension that exists somewhere within our three dimensional terrestrial space, congruent and mutually inclusive of empirical realities. Its existence is contingent on the shifting retinal impressions of the viewer's perceptions. I call it: "Alternative Reality. Videos below" View a Video:Mom presenting "Attributes of Dominique Kubuli" to Dominica Museum View a Video:Medgar Evers College Show, 2013 Allison Plitt 2013 View a Video:The Plight of the Caribbean Artist kaitlynongie The Mantle: Article referencing my work Times Ledger- Newspaper My Master's Degree...
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