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Nov 16, 2018 · Statues destroyed. Murals painted over. And the walls of churches became white. Today, churches in Northern Europe are generally still white, decorated with only a few carefully selected objects.
Oct 22, 2018 · He also noted that sculptures of African people from the ancient world were sometimes carved from black stones, such as basalt, and then painted with reddish-brown pigments to create a lifelike...
Sep 26, 2017 · Jordan Casteel paints the street life of Harlem and its black residents, Celeste Dupuy-Spencer the quirky, and often decrepit, trappings of whiteness. But don’t let their subject matter fool you.
- Aruna D'souza
Americans found strange the Japanese habit of women beautifying their teeth by painting them black. When meeting other cultures, Westerners focused on the absence of clothes and the use of body painting and scarification or cicatrisation, in which substances are rubbed into cuts to produce raised scars, often in a decorative or symbolic pattern.
Oct 28, 2014 · For centuries black people appeared in art as slaves or exotic novelties – and the painter Kerry James Marshall wants to challenge these racist ideas. He talks to Alastair Sooke.
Feb 2, 2019 · It’s been nearly 200 years since white performers first started painting their faces black to mock enslaved Africans in minstrel shows across the United States. It was racist and offensive...
Apr 4, 2022 · All these artists and photographers, while also superb practitioners in colour, selected black and white for their creations. Why, and what are the implications for understanding brain function?
