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In Art Make-Up (1967–68) Nauman videotapes himself applying successive layers of white, pink, green and black makeup to his entire face, arms, and torso. In Flesh to White to Black to Flesh (1968) he videotapes himself applying white make-up to his face and body, then black make-up, then wiping the make-up away to re-expose his skin. [8] [9]
Thereafter, white people in blackface would appear almost exclusively in broad comedies or "ventriloquizing" blackness [56] in the context of a vaudeville or minstrel performance within a film. [57] This stands in contrast to made-up white people routinely playing Native Americans, Asians, Arabs, and so forth, for several more decades. [58]
Jones's style montages images with graffiti-style collages. Themes in her work include contemporary beauty, fashion, and femininity. [1] Her process begins with a sketching phase, so her participants can see her ideas, before making and painting props. Jones has said that her favorite part is adding collaged elements in post-production. [1]
The Beatles' 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band has a widely recognized album cover that depicts several dozen celebrities and other images. The image was made by posing the Beatles in front of life-sized, black-and-white photographs pasted onto hardboard and hand-tinted. [1]
Whiteface is a type of performance in which a dark person uses makeup in order to appear white-skinned, usually to portray a stereotype. [1] The term is a reversal of the form of performance known as blackface, in which makeup was used by a performer to make themselves look like a black person, usually to portray a stereotype.
Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, with touches of opaque white watercolor, on cream laid paper: 14.3 x 16.8 cm: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The drawing is related to the etching B158 : Three Men Being Beheaded: c. 1640: Pen and brown ink, corrected with white; framing lines in pen and brown ink: 15.3 x 22.6 cm: British Museum, London
When two Black American track athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, won gold and bronze medals, respectively, for the 200-meter sprint, each raised a black-gloved fist while standing on the ...
Multiple theories exist about the origins of the theatrical practice of blackface as a caricature of black people. One interpretation is that it can be traced back to traditions connected with Morris dancing. Another interpretation is that traditionally the use of soot to blacken faces in morris dancing was derived from its use as a disguise by ...