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Even though this painting features an actual human being, it's still titled 'Still Life'.
Says something about the painter and the anticipated audience.
How many parallels can you find when it comes to characters-of-color in tv, film, and novels? By the way, the portrait held in the pictured man's hand is that man's master (also the owner of the 'objects' in the painting). Apparently dude was past being proud of the vanities of wealth and position.
Ah, irony.
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Says something about the painter and the anticipated audience.
It sure does. Damn. *smh*
So many white people from the enslavement period up through the 1930s included blacks in portraits/their portraits and pictures, as a sign of their wealth. I'll never forget that famous portrait of George Washington and his family ... with the black slave in the background. His only purpose in that painting is as a "thing", another representation of something Washington owned and a symbol of his wealth just like the jewels around his wife's neck.
I swear to god I thought of this same thing while I was watching John McCain give his MKL speech on Friday ... the black man holding the umbrella over his head so he wouldn't get wet. A non-entity.
Yeah.
I'm sick of white folks.
So many white people from the enslavement period up through the 1930s included blacks in portraits/their portraits and pictures, as a sign of their wealth.
Mmhm. "I've got's it like that and I don't have to pay no social security tax." And some people like to critique the brown hordes for liking rims and bling. As a descendant of 'bling' I think "I know you are but what am I?" is about all the response that deserves. Some of them are the descendants of folk who robbed monasteries and churches in order to get their pimp hats and like acoutrements.
I swear to god I thought of this same thing while I was watching John McCain give his MKL speech on Friday ... the black man holding the umbrella over his head so he wouldn't get wet. A non-entity.
For real? Wow.
I'm sick of white folks.
I love me a race traitor myself.
http://www.woodlawn1805.org/images/Wash
In modern times, whenever the painting has been reproduced in anthologies and such, editors have "edited out" the slave (an attempt to "edit out" the truth, as usual).