Barkley L. Hendricks - 'I Want to Be Memorable' | TateShots
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Barkley L. Hendricks is an American painter and photographer best known for his realist and post-modern portraits of people living in urban areas, beginning in the 1960s and 70s and continuing to the present.
Family Jules: NNN (No Naked Niggahs) (1974) - currently on display in Tate Modern - is one of four paintings that Hendricks made featuring a former student of his at Yale University, George Jules Taylor. In an apparently orientalising interior, he is shown on a luxurious white couch in complete confidence of his nakedness.
By positioning a naked black male figure in the place of the traditional female ‘odalisque’, Hendricks adopted an extremely radical stance. As his challenging subtitle underlines, the painting confronts white fears and sexual stereotypes surrounding the black male.
While many artists turned to African art to make idealised images of black subjects, he made more realistic images of everyday black figures. Furthermore, in Family Jules, Hendricks not only confronted tendencies to Africanise or idealise the black body, but also tackled the reluctance of black artists to represent naked subjects long associated with exploitative images.
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Didn't know he passed; was my favorite art professor.
Where did you study with him?
His art is on another level. What an eye and what a vision.
i'll remember you, sir.
Memorable ✴️
Good stuff. Memorable!
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Young art students, please don't take his advice. Do master copy studies. Do them a lot, do them well. It's not copying someone else's work, it's practicing the art and science of painting. This nonsense is especially spread among young black artists and it needs to stop.
Why? If a Black artist can still make nice memorable paintings without any instance of copying "masters" (which always happen to be Caucasian), then why does it bother you so much? The talent to make nice art comes from God, not some old dead colonizer era painters. What if I rather go further back to Africa and rather copy ancient Egyptian spiritual visual works? Is that ok with you? These mental games of trying to always give credit of knowledge to only a specific group of European artists is very obvious and falls into a superiority complex paradigm.
@@KBD-ONEAbsolutely agree with you. Copying of the “masters” centers European artists as the standard.