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The Cotton Pickers is an 1876 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It depicts two young African-American women in a cotton field.. Stately, silent and with barely a flicker of sadness on their faces, the two black women in the painting are unmistakable in their disillusionment: they picked cotton before the war and they are still picking cotton afterward.
The Slave Market (French: Le Marché d'esclaves) is an 1866 painting by the French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme.It depicts a Middle Eastern or North African setting where a man inspects the teeth of a nude, female Abyssinian slave in the context of the Barbary slave trade.
This image is a JPEG version of the original PNG image at File: A rare Safavid oil painting of an African soldier, Persia, Isfahan, circa 1680-90.png.. Generally, this JPEG version should be used when displaying the file from Commons, in order to reduce the file size of thumbnail images.
The painting shows a tired, faceless Black woman sitting on the edge of her bed about start her workday. The artist first conceived of the painting while getting ready to catch a bus to work on a cold winter morning. [9] As of 2011, Blue Monday was the most mass-produced and popular painting of the artist. [10]
On the occasion of International Women's Day, take a look at the lives of female soldiers worldwide who have fought wars and become real heroes. Pics: Female soldiers around the world Skip to main ...
The art of Burkina Faso is the product of a rich cultural history. In part, this is because so few people from Burkina have become Muslim or Christian. [ 1 ] Many of the ancient artistic traditions for which Africa is so well known have been preserved in Burkina Faso because so many people continue to honor the ancestral spirits, and the ...
An artist has commemorated Remembrance Day by painting poppies and soldiers on to used tea bags to honour those who “sacrificed their lives so we can live freely today”. Caroline West, 50 ...
Black Abstractionism is a term that refers to a modern arts movement that celebrates Black artists of African-American and African ancestry, whether as direct descendants of Africa or of a combined mixed-race heritage, who create work that is not representational, presenting the viewer with abstract expression, imagery, and ideas.