On the contrary, Black female artist like Fabiola JL have tried to break the social construct of what society deems to be the “appropriate” depiction of a Black women. Fabiola Jean-Louis is an artist and photographer from Brooklyn, NY. She was inspired to do art, by her father who was an artist who worked with oil pain, as well as fashion design and construction. Fabiola majored in illustration while she was in college. She later discovered her love and passion for photography. In her photographs you can see that her imagery effortlessly blends imagination with reality, she is able to reveal the unseen worlds and bring them out of hiding. With a style that is extravagant, moody, imaginative, magical, and mysterious, she is an artist who
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She has then in classic European royalty wear, she has on pedestals displays them in a proud way. It is showing their big hips and curvy figures. She also does a good job at putting very subliminal messages in her pictures. In her portrait there is an image of a women in traditional European wear, but if you look close enough you can see a black man being hung in her neck piece. Also in another one of her portraits there is a depiction of a woman looking into a canvas but in that canvas is a back of a black woman/ man who has been wiped. As a depiction of a slave who had been whipped/ lashed by their master. In the last image the woman is sitting on the couch and she is a hold a black faced doll. She also constructs all of gowns and clothing out of paper because, she couldn’t be able to afford the silks, brocades, and crinolines to make the lavish Victorian fashions that she envisioned. Paper was a cheaper alternative for her as an artist. She further explains her reasoning behind using paper, she talks about the decision to us paper as being a deeper significance to her as an artist. She explains that paper represents the strength of people of black people. She has an analogy that explains the use of paper as it relates to the oppression of black people, black people, especially black women have been taken for granted just like paper is taken for granted, if not forgotten. Paper is
She has then in classic European royalty wear, she has on pedestals displays them in a proud way. It is showing their big hips and curvy figures. She also does a good job at putting very subliminal messages in her pictures. In her portrait there is an image of a women in traditional European wear, but if you look close enough you can see a black man being hung in her neck piece. Also in another one of her portraits there is a depiction of a woman looking into a canvas but in that canvas is a back of a black woman/ man who has been wiped. As a depiction of a slave who had been whipped/ lashed by their master. In the last image the woman is sitting on the couch and she is a hold a black faced doll. She also constructs all of gowns and clothing out of paper because, she couldn’t be able to afford the silks, brocades, and crinolines to make the lavish Victorian fashions that she envisioned. Paper was a cheaper alternative for her as an artist. She further explains her reasoning behind using paper, she talks about the decision to us paper as being a deeper significance to her as an artist. She explains that paper represents the strength of people of black people. She has an analogy that explains the use of paper as it relates to the oppression of black people, black people, especially black women have been taken for granted just like paper is taken for granted, if not forgotten. Paper is