By the WahooArt.com Editorial Team
In this tapestry, Kara Walker reproduces an etching from an 1863 issue of the newspaper Harper’s Weekly that documents the burning of a “colored orphan asylum.” Infuriated by newly imposed draft requirements during the Civil War, a mob of New Yorkers took to the streets, attacking both black and white innocents. To drive home the emotional reality of this atrocity, Walker superimposed the silhouette of a hanged black woman over this scene, a shocking image that grabs our attention.Walker’s silhouette of the hanged woman is an example of her ongoing interest in the traditional medium of cut-paper silhouettes. Before the widespread popularity of photography in early nineteenth-century America, paper cutouts of profiles served as a popular medium for portraiture. For the artist, this collision of popular prints and cutouts with the more elite tradition of woven tapestries creates tension: “I liked the irony of transferring this lowly craft into a medium once used for kings and princes,” Walker said.
Explora la cautivadora obra de Harry Walker (n. 1947), pintor francés conocido por su 'Televisionismo' e interpretaciones únicas de los medios, la historia y temas sociales. ¡Descubre arte original en línea!
Descubre arte estadounidense impresionante en el Museo Cristal Bridges de Bentonville, Arkansas! Entrada gratuita, visitas guiadas al hogar de Frank Lloyd Wright y paisajes increíbles de las montañas Ozark.
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