Danielle Brooks as Sofia and Fantasia Barrino as Celie. Eli Ade/Warner Bros January 29, 2024 The Color Purple is an emotional, joyful exploration of black womanhood in the deep south Amber Lascelles, Royal Holloway University of London This adaption of Alice Walker’s 1982 novel is an emotional yet joyful exploration of black womanhood in the early 20th century South.
Henry Darger worked as a hospital custodian. After his death in 1973, hundreds of his illustrations were discovered. Brooklyn Taxidermy/flickr May 25, 2023 What is vernacular art? A visual artist explains Beauvais Lyons, University of Tennessee The genre – also known as ‘folk art’ or ‘outsider art’ – serves as a reminder that art is a universal human pursuit.
Duppy Shadow (1993) Eugene Palmer. October 18, 2021 Eugene Palmer: a Black British artist you need to know about Richard Hylton, SOAS, University of London The lie of the land: Britain’s hidden legacies of slavery in Eugene Palmer’s paintings.
Painting Queen Charlotte, the artist Nathaniel Dance-Holland employed quite a bit of creative licence, if her courtiers and critics are to be believed. Wikimedia March 9, 2021 #DeepNostalgia – how animating portraits with AI is both bolstering and undoing historic painted lies Madeleine Pelling, University of York Not everything that was painted can be taken as fact.