Monday, April 26, 2010
Visual Art Boobquake, Art Edition
Posted by Jen Graves on Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 4:30 PM
She's from Johnson's show at James Harris Gallery in 2007, and she's Manet's Olympia but reversed: Art nudes lie with their heads on the left, porn nudes show up the other way (or any way).
The racism in the original Manet is here, too, but also flipped. Instead of a black servant offering Olympia a bouquet of flowers (maybe from an admirer from the night before?), the artist here—Johnson—is black. He's making the image and titling it in his voice: However defiant the stare and hair of this model, she's also his.
Thanks, Boobquake.
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She looks like a classic nude to me (despite hair and race of artist). And quite lovely, though not erotic.
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"Not one of the many saggy-titted hippies who lived with us at the time, I hope?"
"Darling, it was a commune. That was the point."
"Darling, it was a commune. That was the point."
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NSFW... C'mon guys! I check this blog while I'm in class!!! People behind me get all uppity when there are boobs on my screen.
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This looks cheap. I mean, I understand why you decided to blog about it. But still...it looks cheap, Jen Graves. The artist could have done so much better.
So cheap. And not even as a 'cultural' thing. Really...it's not even ironically/artistically cheap. It's just cheap. And it makes me sad. Shame on you.
So cheap. And not even as a 'cultural' thing. Really...it's not even ironically/artistically cheap. It's just cheap. And it makes me sad. Shame on you.
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"This looks cheap"
I agree! For Seattle we need 200 lb womyn with scretched tattoos, punk makeup and a lip ring....hang on, we have that up the page.
I agree! For Seattle we need 200 lb womyn with scretched tattoos, punk makeup and a lip ring....hang on, we have that up the page.
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Thanks, a naked lady always brightens my day!
I see no smut involved here.
You won't find me advocating for bikini coffee stands, but this is okay with me.
I'd like to see more of boobquake everywhere.
Could we see another lady with a less dark social commentary?
Tanks again!
I see no smut involved here.
You won't find me advocating for bikini coffee stands, but this is okay with me.
I'd like to see more of boobquake everywhere.
Could we see another lady with a less dark social commentary?
Tanks again!
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I don't get it - what does boobquake woman want us to do, walk around with our boobs out so we can endure a day full of sexual harrassment? Um, no thanks!
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People dont understand and are a little too eager to discount why this, Rashid, and the "post black arts movement" piss a lot of black people off. it isnt isnt the fact that he photographed a naked white woman. It is that the said naked white woman is presented as his "prize", as much his prize as Monet thought his black servant to be. White Girl is an adherence to a destructive standard of beauty that brutalizes black women and dehumanizes White Women by presenting them as "the main catch". You catch fish. You do not catch a human being.
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