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The Slave Market and the Theatre of European Anxiety

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Author Brian Hawkeswood.                                                                                                   Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung https://artelbestudio.blogspot.com/2025/04/orientalist-beautiful-form-of-realism.html When Jean-Léon Gérôme exhibited The Slave Market in 1871, Europe was not an innocent observer of slavery. The Atlantic system had only recently been dismantled in parts of the Western world; Brazil would abolish slavery in 1888. European empires were expanding across Africa and the Middle East. Racial hierarchies were being codified in pseudo-scientific language. Anthropology, colonial administration, and academic painting shared an overlapping visual culture.         ...

“Graffiti: Art, Literature, or Urban Scream?”

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Author - Brian Hawkeswood .                                                                       Nach unten scrollen für die deutsche Übersetzung. Ah, how often in my life as a teacher have I placed a question like a pebble in a child’s shoe—seemingly small, but with every step, it presses into thought, discomforting certainty. And so I posed this one, casually, with a smile that belied the depth of the trap: Is graffiti art, or literature, or is it merely vandalism? The boy, a bright and good-natured child, blinked, tilted his head, and then, like a deer startled into beauty, offered, “It must be art… because it’s colourful?” As though colour were the soul of art! And what, I wanted to ask, would we then make of Rembrandt ’s shadowed browns and ochres, of Goya ’s blacks, or of the silences in Morandi ’s jars? B...