justin_o_guy2 wrote on 02/13/18 at 15:45:58:A white guy paints a white woman decapitating a black woman and Trump hires him.
If that's okay, then this is.
idk, not the same power dynamics in play there.
and did you actually read the snopes you posted??
only 2 of this artist's work does that..
this is about a power play, between minorities and their historical roles in the world.
if it was a white guy decapitating a black person, well, that just re-enforces a horrible real life history and doesn't play with it to turn it around to make you think about it.
a white person decapitating a black person is a celebration of a real life event, a black person decapitating a white person makes you think about the historical stereotype and why you hold that idea. cause of course in real life, many white people have been killed by black people, in many wars over the centuries, etc... but seeing the race reversal in a historical context is a statement on how does this reversal of power roles affect you. it might not affect you, that's fine, it might anger you, it might make you happy to see the reverse, it's all subjective. The artist isn't racist, he's trying (maybe failing) to make the historical race reversal make you think about how the powerful/winners affect historical and cultural norms.
it's more about role reversal than race, so like power dynamics, but yeah he uses race in it too, so like power dynamics through the cultural norms of race perception.
at least that's what I get out of this guy's work and that snopes article , but it could be something completely different, idk, I'm not the artist.
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