sliceofpearpie:jhameia:pancakes-after-midnight:broccoli-goblin:solitics:tielan:monsterpeanut:monster
sliceofpearpie:jhameia:pancakes-after-midnight:broccoli-goblin:solitics:tielan:monsterpeanut:monsterpeanut:monsterpeanut:redsuns-n-orangemoons:kwamenace:bleck-excellence:pharoah-tahan:alwaysbewoke:History books always seem to leave this out.Don’t let them tell you that slaves are our only history.When black people ruled the worldHistory repeats itselfAnd who said moors weren’t black?These are fantastic who painted these???GOOGLE HALPEDIT: ludwig deutsch <3yaaayLook at those fucking details!!! Look how he makes the light bounce off of the skin, the eyes not pure white but reflecting the colors. Each and every FUCKING CHAIN is painted and highlighted.The folding of the fabric aaaaaaaaaaaI’ve reblogged this before.I DON’T CARE.they look like photographsI THOUGHT THEY WERE AT FIRST also all the patterns on those gates and doors? and the tiles? the artist is painting on HARD MODEthe shine on the tip of the last guy’s nose makes me want to offer him an oil blotter as an excuse to chat him upit’s always so interesting how meanings of images are re-written constantly. we look at these images now and see them as revealing a stronger, better, more progressive truth. what is also true at the same time is that these paintings are Orientalist art. This is art that was produced during an active period of colonisation (in case you didn’t notice they were C19th) which depicts “The East” (a totalising term that is not my own) as beautiful, decadent, and consumable. Just because an image looks like a beautiful, closely observed illustration doesn’t mean its context is ethical; Deutsch was and is no different from any other white western artist who avidly consumes non-western cultures while caring nothing for actual racialised people. His work depicts historical Egypt; during the period while he making these paintings, real-life Egypt was occupied by Britain.the images look like photographs because his paintings were based on photographs from his travels. if you can bear it, do read the description in the link, because it shows how these images are consumed today on the art market.it’s so shit and unfair that we have to sit with this context. -- source link