Feeling Rebloggy
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/artist-replaces-white-men-black-women-creation-of-adam_us_591cb795e4b03b485cae4d91
Rosales told HuffPost that early exposure to famous paintings such as the Creation “helped to define” her understanding of the world.
“It was only later when I realized that the frame that was set by the masters excluded so much more than it included,” she added. “What was included was
a Eurocentric view of the world, and in this case, the heavens. What was excluded was all the rest of us.”
...The oil-on-canvas painting that took two months to create replaces white male figures that represent Jesus, God and angels with black women.
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