Romaine Brooks Research Paper
When regarding Romaine Brooks, born Beatrice Romaine Goddard, I feel she was born at the wrong time. Even in the 1970’s era, if Brooks was active in this period, she would get a lot of backlash from the LGB (which is was called), transgender and crossdressing was considered as a sick or a mental issue. Even well into the middles 1990’s, it was still called LGB instead of the now LGBT, or now LGBT ”I” (Intersex) However, I found this very interesting, a group called SGL ("same gender loving") is a group of gay male black men who distinguish themselves from what they regard as white-dominated LGBT communities. Here are some great pictures from transgender artists, I feel really support the LGBT communities. I like Im Queer And LoveIt (sorry,
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When he passed, due to suicide, the transgender community felt like they lost one of their role models. Yet, you can tell Aguhar started going deep into depressing by the timeline of his art, such as the picture below, showing him lying on his back, as other males are standing up, and also, the tall black male in the picture having a larger penis, than all the other males.
Also, knocking out two birds with one stone, Vaginal Davis an African American and intersex-born painter helped with the development of the Feminist Art Movement in the 1970s, and as well as African American artwork. Davis art reminds me of Pablo Picasso, plus, a lot of Davis artwork is created with Brittany Spears’s make-up which is very cool but odd. Also, he did a painting on cornflakes boxes and matchbooks.
Finally, I choose Henry Ossawa Tanner, a famous black painter who grow-up around slavery. Tanner moved to Paris to study and started doing art there. I chose his first painting, The Banjo Lesson because it kind of reminded me of last week class. A father and son, sitting down playing with each other, learning how to play the Banjo, the father pasting down his knowledge to his son. Also, I don’t know why, but The Annunciation also reminds me of everything we learned from this class. From the Virgin Mary, the women clothes, gender rights, too much, much
When he passed, due to suicide, the transgender community felt like they lost one of their role models. Yet, you can tell Aguhar started going deep into depressing by the timeline of his art, such as the picture below, showing him lying on his back, as other males are standing up, and also, the tall black male in the picture having a larger penis, than all the other males.
Also, knocking out two birds with one stone, Vaginal Davis an African American and intersex-born painter helped with the development of the Feminist Art Movement in the 1970s, and as well as African American artwork. Davis art reminds me of Pablo Picasso, plus, a lot of Davis artwork is created with Brittany Spears’s make-up which is very cool but odd. Also, he did a painting on cornflakes boxes and matchbooks.
Finally, I choose Henry Ossawa Tanner, a famous black painter who grow-up around slavery. Tanner moved to Paris to study and started doing art there. I chose his first painting, The Banjo Lesson because it kind of reminded me of last week class. A father and son, sitting down playing with each other, learning how to play the Banjo, the father pasting down his knowledge to his son. Also, I don’t know why, but The Annunciation also reminds me of everything we learned from this class. From the Virgin Mary, the women clothes, gender rights, too much, much