Can we also mention the fact that the painter has done other paintings depicting black women beheading white men? If Trump commissioned a portrait by an artist who had painted images of white women beheading black men, you would never hear the end about how racist that was (and rightly so.)
They're very obviously a variation on Judith beheading Holofernes, a very common subject in art history.
I don't see how that makes it less racially....charged.
Well, a shallow analysis of Kehinde Wiley's variations would lead me to associate the black woman in his painting as Judith bravely defeating (or overcoming, for a more universal message) their oppressors, whites, as Holofernes. Obviously, there's a racially-charged message, and that may be controversial, but what art isn't?
If that's how you choose to interpret it, that's fine. I don't find his artwork racist, rather, I see it as liberating.
Using your logic, one could say that Artemisia Gentileschi's version of Judith slaying Holofernes is sexist, because not all men, past or present, discriminated against women.
Wow. PC culture has gone too far.
Because art is not literal? I don't understand why you aren't able to interpret it beyond literally describing what is on the painting.
Ironically, the same subject matter has been painted hundreds of time by men. Are they also sexist??
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