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Re: White Madonna with Twins
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sukuna</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Someone made a film about the artist's efforts to create this image. Here's an excerpt from the article:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins simply shows the intense factors surrounding Beecroft as she makes her art – from her obsessive failed attempt to adopt the twins (which nearly breaks up her marriage back in the United States) to her insistence on photographing the children (which upsets Sudanese locals).
In one of the most poignant scenes in the film, women from the orphanage try to stop Beecroft and her photographer (also white) from shooting the twins unclothed in the village church.
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because this is art, or done under the purview of art, are the artist's actions acceptable? does it increase our understanding of our own perceptions of race, motherhood, childhood, etc.?
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Or the nakedness? This stirs in the race factor because it is a true state of infants.
The photography does increase the perception on motherhood primarily because it overturns the context of mother and child that we are used to. It is thought provoking on race.
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sukuna, when you asked what actions, i was specifically referring to the artist overriding the concerns of the community and barricading herself in order to take the picture with the children unclothed - then, on top of that, doing it in a church. she has caused offence, and probably some deep ones, including commiting blasphemy,looking at it from the pov of the communty.
yet the work she has produced, by being provoking, is causing us to look anew at issues of race, motherhood, culture, power, sex, all those things. and as an artist, some would applaud her for stimulating such discussions.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sukuna</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: MGee</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Someone made a film about the artist's efforts to create this image. Here's an excerpt from the article:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Art Star and the Sudanese Twins simply shows the intense factors surrounding Beecroft as she makes her art – from her obsessive failed attempt to adopt the twins (which nearly breaks up her marriage back in the United States) to her insistence on photographing the children (which upsets Sudanese locals).
In one of the most poignant scenes in the film, women from the orphanage try to stop Beecroft and her photographer (also white) from shooting the twins unclothed in the village church.
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because this is art, or done under the purview of art, are the artist's actions acceptable? does it increase our understanding of our own perceptions of race, motherhood, childhood, etc.?
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Or the nakedness? This stirs in the race factor because it is a true state of infants.
The photography does increase the perception on motherhood primarily because it overturns the context of mother and child that we are used to. It is thought provoking on race.
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sukuna, when you asked what actions, i was specifically referring to the artist overriding the concerns of the community and barricading herself in order to take the picture with the children unclothed - then, on top of that, doing it in a church. she has caused offence, and probably some deep ones, including commiting blasphemy,looking at it from the pov of the communty.
yet the work she has produced, by being provoking, is causing us to look anew at issues of race, motherhood, culture, power, sex, all those things. and as an artist, some would applaud her for stimulating such discussions.
make of it what you will 
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i adjusted my laptop screen and then realized it was two babies... 
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