Mrs. Thomas Donovan Analysis

painting whose description brought to mind a common stereotype about Africans as well as African Americans. The painting was called “Mrs. Thomas Donovan and Elinor Donovan” created by Joshua Johnston. The painting wasn’t the most expressive. It was hardly colorful. Joshua Johnston was charged with painting a picture of a high born woman with her daughter. In the picture the woman wore dark clothing while wearing ‘shepherdess’ hat. She held her daughter Elinor in her lap along with a bowl of cherries. In Elinor’s tiny hand, she held a cherry stem that has two bright red cherries attached to the end. What is important about this picture is what it represents. In reading the description, I saw that Camille Cosby added a piece at the bottom. In …show more content…
James Ferguson states, “journalistic and policy visions of ‘Africa’ thus continues to rely on narratives that anthropologists readily recognize as misleading, factually incorrect, and often racist” (Ferguson, 3). Because the world is constantly being exposed to media feeds that pictures Africa as being helpless, and that unless a person actually research the different countries in Africa then this image will stay seared into our brains. Last, I also found a picture taken by Nontsikelelo “Lolo” Veleko. This picture is a part of Veleko’s Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder collection. The picture is of a young South African male dressed in a light blue shirt with thin purple and orange strips, and a white collar. He wore a black and white striped tie and a green belt with a silver buckle. His pants were fire engine red and he had on black and white Oxford shoes. He wore black shades outlined with a white rim, a black hat, and had the strap of a tan messenger bag coming across his chest. The purpose of this picture is that Veleko wanted to dispel the negative perceptions of South Africa in the eyes of the