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Still-life; Interior Greeting Card featuring the painting The Moorish General Othello by David G Wilson

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The Moorish General Othello Greeting Card

David G Wilson

by David G Wilson

$5.95

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Our greeting cards are 5" x 7" in size and are produced on digital offset printers using 100 lb. paper stock. Each card is coated with a UV protectant on the outside surface which produces a semi-gloss finish. The inside of each card has a matte white finish and can be customized with your own message up to 500 characters in length. Each card comes with a white envelope for mailing or gift giving.

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The strategic juxtaposition of commonplace objects like a chair draped with Pan-African colors, weapons traditionally seen in Orientalist paintings... more

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Lorna Lorraine

Lorna Lorraine

Very good composition David!

Artist's Description

The strategic juxtaposition of commonplace objects like a chair draped with Pan-African colors, weapons traditionally seen in Orientalist paintings and a hand of bananas strategically placed on a table upon which there is a warrant, creates the image of Shakespeare's protagonist of the same name - Othello. Shakespeare places Othello in Italy fighting against the Moors at the battle of Lepanto in 1571. But if he were a moor, why would Othello fight against his own people? I believe he would more likely be holding the warrant for the arrest of Fr. Bartolomeo de Las Casas on charges of "Crimes against humanity", for his suggestion to the monarchs of Spain to enslave his African brothers for four hundred years. Why did Shakespeare portray Othello as a traitor to his own moorish brothers? Is this the only image that he could portray of a black man?
In the image that makes up Othello's face, we see Desdemona (Des demons - French for the demons, thereby demonizing the white woman who "cond...

About David G Wilson

David G Wilson

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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