Until today, I had never seen this pair of portraits. The work is brilliantly evocative! Your video helped me understand the work & see the woman’s representational nature as a multitude of ideas, not just a singular focus on the imagined Sally Hemmings. It makes me long for a deep study of this complicated woman in first person. There’s so much about Jefferson, yet virtually none of the biographical references even mention Hemmings except in passing or as part of Jefferson’s slaveholder status. I wish I could go back in time & talk with her. The coercion explicit in her relationship with Jefferson objectifies her; yet she must have been an insightful & deeply intelligent woman to hold Jefferson’s attention for decades as a prominent member of his household. Thank you for sharing your expertise in this video!!

Thank you for creating this!

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Exquisite! Excellent! Thanks for bringing her work to light!

Definitely art for art's sake - devoid of meaning.

Rubbish art and utterly scandalous. Who cares about awards?? Sounds like a continuation of Protestant/Catholic wars. As a person of colour, I don't care for modern contemporary artsy fartsy expressions. Thanks for sharing all the same.

Art is supposed to make people feel emotion. Music can be powerful and move people to tears. Why is a mural banned for its truth telling of its time and nature of things ugly in humanity? Why anyone should try to censor art in any form is beyond ridiculous. Whistler was ridiculing societys behaviours of its time. This is just another example of intersectionality and victimhood. Im hoping we can pass through this pathetic "woke" period without the majority of people who do "get it and get art ", from being terribly disappointed by a few ning nongs.

The vantablack stupidity

Alongside collage, photography and poetry abstract art is my favorite language because you have an infinite source of creativity

Thanks for the acknowledgment of these unique expressionists 😊

You are a born educator. Very well done.

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It doesn't seem like Rex to be horridly racist, this looks like a really over-the-top political cartoon to me. It's most likely a satirical slam against society, as was known to be done by the Bright Young Things. When I saw the cartoonish boy being dragged on a lead by a realistically-painted woman and yet the dog runs free, that's when I realized it was meant to be seen as ridiculing societal views. As with anything, I could be wrong, of course, but that's what I see when I look at it with modern eyes. "In Pursuit of Rare Meats" in itself is a tongue-in-cheek title for this disgusting display, which I think was intentionally created to be disgusting. Torturing and ending the lives of beautiful creatures to be eaten by the pompous upper classes. I wish we could ask Rex to know his true purpose behind it. He was only 22 at the time and hadn't been to other countries until his friends mother helped pay for him to visit France, so he had no real understanding of the rest of the world, maybe that's why it looks like something out of a storybook, or perhaps its commentary on how society views other races as a cartoonish stereotype. No updates from Art In Color of what happened with this exhibit? I was hopeful.

Probably because it's not a racist mural. Only somebody who looks for racism in everything would think so.

How have I never seen a your channel before?🤦🏾‍♀️ I’ve been missing out 😮Right now my favorite collage artist is Lanecia Rouse Tinsley.

More black complexes

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excellent work! congratulations, i'll be happy to share it via my blog regards, #PalianSHOW "art by women - women in arts"

Great story teller, simple and pretty in pnk the winner!

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Anish is not an artist. He’s hated here in India. He’s one of those scam artists who sell poop as modern art. Just google everything he’s made. Except the bean, nothing is creative.

Why do you leave out Frank Morrison?

My favorite artists are the two that made the Obama portraits.

Art portrays the time the art was created in, and NOTHING else.

The book of genesis says nothing about dark skin being a divine punishment.

I grew up with a gentelman by the name William Scott his

the cars that 'disappear' when people paint them in 4.0

the drama...

I love this video. Sometimes i feel like Black artists working in the abstract is totally overlooked. We should be talking about it!!

Good coverage of my daughter, Kenturah. Thanks!

fast foward, black people are now fantasizing white culture in a time where they were treated like animals ironic

Rex was pointing out that even in his Arcadian paradise the ugliness of man can still be found. How anyone could posthumously smear Whistler as a racist is disgusting. For shame!

All art is Black Art! Yeah,I said it! We da first to shape da clay Da first to mark the sand Da first to burn for charcoal To trace the pattern of our hand Red blue and yellow from the berries white from ashes of the fire Drawn on rocks Fingered on our bodies First canvas .......... Now being labeled by a labeler

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Just seen Keith Piper's briliant two channel video installation ' Viva Voce' which physically dominates the abandoned restaurant at Tate Britain in what is now a display space for the Whistler mural. Piper argues for the "retain and explain" policy in museums in a highly recommended interview on The Voice youtube channel. He say that the mural is "evidence for the prosecution " in interrogating the past and his video shows Rex Whistler being cross examined forcefully by an academic who really gets to the root of his artistic prejudice. I felt his installation is a very well researched exposition of the racist attitudes prevalent at the time. It should make people reflect on how far past colonial attitudes are still having an impact. The two works together create a powerful educational experience. It shows what can be done to put problematic artworks in context. Love this channel, Jaelynn, and this really valuable upload that shows the detail of how the Tate changed its afttitude over the past ten years.

I think there's so much more to be said about abstract or abstracted art apart from the modern trend. America has a long tradition of geometric patterns etc., There's the Benin bronzes, and Morroccan tiles in Africa. These often aren't full on abstract, no depiction of anything, but they are stylised and minimalistic compared to what people in Europe were doing, aiming for photorealistic paintings of historical events and figures. And a lot of the not abstract but expressionist, kubist etc. styles of early 20th century Europe were inspired by African art. I think this also contributed to the disdain many people have for abstract or stylised art, because historically European have used their ability to depic photoreal scenes as proof of their cutltural superiority, and abstraction is associated with "those primitives". When expressionist artists started out, the backlash against them was often very racist, the Nazis degenerate art bullshit also went in this direction. Framing modern art as African art. Which, I mean that is kind of true, but it's not a bad thing. And then not only did black people favour making more concrete art with a clearer political message, absteract art has become a status symbol, an acquired taste of the rich and cultured white upper classes. "The plebs crave for kitschy depicions of reality, but we get abstract art, we are in on it, liking abstract art is our secret club" It came from marginalised communities, then it was countercultural for a bit, then gentrified and appropriated but maybe that is changing now and abstract art is gaining wider acceptance and it will be just one of many facets of the art world ok bye

Vanessa German is incredible!!

Yinka is that dude

KUDOS!! Insightful, thoughtful, and well researched. Keep up the good work!

I just found and listened to your excellent video after a group of friends and I have been discussing the new article in the NY Times about Keith Piper's new response to Whistler's racist mural - you should do an update! My friends and I live in the US, and we would love to see his response, if somehow it could be posted, or at least summarized in detail, online

Most people have not seen the mural , can you explain what the whole mural contains ? There are many more offensive art pieces in the gallery , you do not have to agree with an art piece to gain an emotional response. Most people in the UK did not see black people unless as blacked up musical acts based on a famous tour from the USA many years before. Most UK subjects first met real black people in 1943 when the USA troops arrived.

I rather hope that decisions are not taken on the basis of such superficial and modish analysis... though I rather fear they are.

What Load of shite

Varo for surrealism hakuai for wood block

Such vibrant, expressive, unique artists! Loved this video, thanks so much!

Does anyone have a picture of Joshua Johnson?

Love Love Loved this video!! Your fresh approach to sharing this very important information is greatly appreciated by a black female yet to known abstract/mixed.media artist who is constantly looking for black female abstract artists! Thank you for featuring artists such as Howardina Pindell and Mary Lovelace O'Neal. Bravo to your channel!

The Artist died fighting Nazi Germany in France. Britain used it empire to root out slavery. Even Winston Churchill before World War 1 fought in military campaigns against slavery. Britain was the first country to abolish slavery and waged wars to abolish it through out her empire. It is verry unlikely this mural condones slavery. All depictions are likely to invoke shock to its viewers. Beware, the world is not perfect. there is evil within us.

Excellent video. We are celebrating black artists at our AME church. Would love to use this video!