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1. Celebrating the start of #BlackHistoryMonth with Weiditz: African drummer playing at the ceremonial entrance of Katherine of Aragon’s nephew, Emperor Charles V (1529). Reworked with loo roll, grandpap’s cou cou stick, granny’s quilt and clothes horse.
#BlackHistoryMonth2021
Check out the webpage to see the updated gallery! Rediscovering #blackportraiture through #gettymuseumchallenge. #gettychallenge https://t.co/FPuQU51g2o
Christoph Weiditz: An African drummer playing at the ceremonial entrance of Katherine of Aragon’s nephew, Emperor Charles V (1529). Reworked with loo roll, grandpap’s cou cou stick, granny’s quilt and clothes horse. Rediscovering #blackportraiture through #gettymuseumchallenge.
Alice Neel: Harold Cruse (c1950). Intellectual, educator and writer. Harold Cruse would go on to become a key intellectual figure in the civil rights movement. Reworked with dark overcoat. Rediscovering #blackportraiture through #gettymuseumchallenge. #gettychallenge
Isaac Belisario: Lovey (1837). Lovey sold flowers in Kingston, Jamaica. As a way of increasing his income, he held nightly puppet shows with “songs of his own composition”. Reworked with Punch & Judy. Rediscovering #blackportraiture through #gettymuseumchallenge. #gettychallenge
Juriaen van Streeck: Still Life With Peaches and a Lemon
(c. 1650s). Reworked with African print, my heirloom patchwork quilt and Bajan chopped seasoning. Rediscovering #blackportraiture through @GettyMuseum challenge.
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