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See this is what’s wrong with you Somewhat Menacing BLack Guy, you make no sense while making some sense and you look like a tree in your nondescript-roundneck t-shirt. Yet, I’m drawn to you….

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thedailywhat: Behind the Pulitzer of the Day: When Denver Post photographer Craig F. Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography on Monday, his boss managed to sneak his subject, Scott Ostrom, into the newsroom for the announcement. But Ostrom had something to celebrate, as well: The Iraq war vet had just learned that the Department of Veterans Affairs finally officially recognized his PTSD, which was at the center of Walker’s award-winning project, called “Welcome Home.” “This story has definitely saved at least one guy’s life so far,” Ostrom says. [styleblog] this series is poignant as fuck. 

thedailywhat:

Behind the Pulitzer of the Day: When Denver Post photographer Craig F. Walker won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography on Monday, his boss managed to sneak his subject, Scott Ostrom, into the newsroom for the announcement. But Ostrom had something to celebrate, as well: The Iraq war vet had just learned that the Department of Veterans Affairs finally officially recognized his PTSD, which was at the center of Walker’s award-winning project, called “Welcome Home.”

“This story has definitely saved at least one guy’s life so far,” Ostrom says.

[styleblog]

this series is poignant as fuck. 

suprntrlblack: 潘玉良 (Pan Yuliang), 非洲裸女 (African Nude), 1972, oil on canvas For those of you who have not watched the 1994 film starring Gong Li, or don’t buy into the idea that movies can actually produce accurate biopics, Pan Yuliang was born in 1889 in Yangzhou. At an early age, after the death of her parents, she was sold into prostitution by her uncle. There, she attracted the attention of Pan Zanhua, a customs official, who bought her freedom and wedded her as his second wife. She attended the Shanghai Art Academy in 1921. Upon graduation, she traveled to Europe to study at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. In 1926, she won the Gold Prize at the Roman International Art Exhibition. When she returned to Shanghai in 1929. she brought with her Western painting techniques (oil on canvas) and subject matter (nudes). Although the first female artist in China to use Western painting techniques, the subject matter, as well as her background in prostitution, caused the art community, and society in general, to ostracize her. She returned to Paris in 1937, where she lived until her death in 1977. She did not garner much attention from the Western art community. Considering the explosion of modernist art movements in the twentieth century, it is easy to see how her style, especially in later years, could have been seen as derivative of the Post-Impressionists. However, many of the motifs in her paintings, obscured female form, nudes, flowers, interiors, and heavy makeup were directly influenced from her experience growing up. The rouged cheeks in particular, reference the makeup of prostitutes. Unfortunately, there is still not that much information about her available in English (a lot more research needs to be done on both female artists and international artists, in the ‘world art history’ context). Therefore, I know nothing about this painting (I wish I did). The most immediate question, I think, would be whether there is a difference in the portrayal of a minority woman, when it is painted by a minority woman (albeit of a different race). Does the male gaze, the orientializing gaze, the privileged gaze, still hold?

suprntrlblack:

潘玉良 (Pan Yuliang), 非洲裸女 (African Nude), 1972, oil on canvas

For those of you who have not watched the 1994 film starring Gong Li, or don’t buy into the idea that movies can actually produce accurate biopics, Pan Yuliang was born in 1889 in Yangzhou. At an early age, after the death of her parents, she was sold into prostitution by her uncle. There, she attracted the attention of Pan Zanhua, a customs official, who bought her freedom and wedded her as his second wife. She attended the Shanghai Art Academy in 1921. Upon graduation, she traveled to Europe to study at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. In 1926, she won the Gold Prize at the Roman International Art Exhibition.

When she returned to Shanghai in 1929. she brought with her Western painting techniques (oil on canvas) and subject matter (nudes). Although the first female artist in China to use Western painting techniques, the subject matter, as well as her background in prostitution, caused the art community, and society in general, to ostracize her. She returned to Paris in 1937, where she lived until her death in 1977.

She did not garner much attention from the Western art community. Considering the explosion of modernist art movements in the twentieth century, it is easy to see how her style, especially in later years, could have been seen as derivative of the Post-Impressionists. However, many of the motifs in her paintings, obscured female form, nudes, flowers, interiors, and heavy makeup were directly influenced from her experience growing up. The rouged cheeks in particular, reference the makeup of prostitutes.

Unfortunately, there is still not that much information about her available in English (a lot more research needs to be done on both female artists and international artists, in the ‘world art history’ context). Therefore, I know nothing about this painting (I wish I did). The most immediate question, I think, would be whether there is a difference in the portrayal of a minority woman, when it is painted by a minority woman (albeit of a different race). Does the male gaze, the orientializing gaze, the privileged gaze, still hold?

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could’ve SWORN that sushi was Japanese food….but whatevs

could’ve SWORN that sushi was Japanese food….but whatevs

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SORRY BUT ONLY WHITE GIRLS WANT THIS.  So much that I didn’t even know there was a term for it.

SORRY BUT ONLY WHITE GIRLS WANT THIS.  So much that I didn’t even know there was a term for it.

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