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Charles Henri Joseph Cordier
Cordier was born in Cambrai. In 1847, a meeting with Seïd Enkess, a former black slave who had become a model, determined the course of his career.
His first success was a bust in plaster of a Sudanese man “Saïd Abdullah of the Mayac, Kingdom of the Darfur” (Sudan). This was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1848, the same year that slavery was abolished in all French colonies. It is now housed at the The Walters Art Museum.
In 1851, Queen Victoria bought a bronze of it at the Great Exhibition of London. From 1851 to 1866, he served as the official sculptor of Paris’s National History Museum, creating a series of spectacularly lifelike busts for their new ethnographic gallery (now housed in the Musee de l’Homme, Paris).
Cordier took part in the great works commissioned by the Second French Empire (Paris Opera, Musée du Louvre, the Hôtel de Ville) or by private interests such as Baron de Rothchild. He died in Algeria.
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indigodreams: Poppies
So the wind asked the poppies
to lead in the dance.
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For his latest series, ‘An Economy of Grace’, Nigerian-American artist Kehinde Wiley features women as his subjects - a first in the history of his works.
Currently on show at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, Wiley teamed up with another current artistic force and the man behind the recent surge in success for French label Givenchy, Riccardo Tisci, who designed the costumes for the subjects in all of Wiley’s pieces.
Read a Huffington Post interview with Wiley about this exhibition.
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yuri kochiyama. when i was coming up in my own consciousness as a person of color, you were a shining example of what it means to be a politically/socially/spiritually conscious asian american agent of social change & justice. power to our peoples. power to all peoples.
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The latest work from the man who brought you the Obama “Hope” election poster, Shepard Fairey.
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Gay and Black is Beautiful
“Better World Advertising made this campaign for Black Men’s Initiative (BMI) and Harlem United. BMI is Harlem United’s HIV Prevention program for Black men who practice same desire: openly gay and bisexual brothers, men who are curious, as well as guys who prefer not to use labels.
The campaign is running now in Harlem, NYC.”Source: osocio.org
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Street Art By BR1
why is this not on the tumblr radar
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