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I can't think of a single Frenchie offhand that ever painted anything worth looking at really. The Italians on the other hand..
Exit Olympia, enter Laure: Paris masterpieces renamed after black subjects
French art masterpieces have been renamed after their long-overlooked black subjects in a new exhibition at the Musée d’Orsay that shows how black people played a major role in the Paris avant-garde scene but were then written out of the story.
"There was a black presence in avant garde circles when artists and writers defied convention,” Murrell told AFP, citing Jeanne Duval, the "Black Venus" who was mistress and muse to the poet Baudelaire and was also painted by Manet, along with Cuban singer Maria Martinez and the novelist Alexandre Dumas, the author of "The Count of Monte Cristo".
But the influence of people of colour has been eclipsed from art history by racism and stereotyping, Murrell said.
Instead their identities have been hidden behind "unnecessary racial references", the US scholar added, such as negress or mixed-race "mulatresse" – a term derived from the French word for mule.
Written out of art history
Is this the work of nigger 'Masterpainter' Basquiat or just the random doodles of a 12 year old schoolboy?
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