Today in labor history April 28, 1896: Na Hye-sok was born. She was a South Korean feminist, poet, writer, painter and journalist. She was the first female professional painter and the first feminist writer in Korea. In 1919, the authorities jailed her for participating in the March 1st Movement against Japanese rule in Korea. In 1934, she published an essay called “Divorce Testimony.” In that piece, she wrote about the repression of female sexuality. She also said that her ex-husband couldn’t satisfy her sexually and refused to talk about it with her. And she also promoted the idea of "test marriages," where a couple would live together before marrying to see if they really were compatible. These ideas were considered so scandalous and shocking that her career took a tailspin and never recovered.
Artist Helen McLaughlin makes videos of how she creates digital paintings of nature, plants and sometimes portraits. The videos explain each step of the process, using timelapse to move from step to step. You can follow at:
As Suzanne Valadon has a new exhibition in #Paris at Pompidoe-Metz, this gives me a chance to post her wonderful (implied) critique of the reclining nude.
Valadon's Venus looks like she's had a long day, is enjoying a cigarette and is not going to get her kit off for you, sunshine.
Valadon had modelled for #artists & was all too aware of the dynamic between #painter & subject... all of which can be inferred from the work itself... such a great painting.
"À ce moment-là du XVIIe siècle, ceux qui venaient des îles britanniques, hommes et femmes, étaient plus que les Africains dans les champs de tabac ; même au milieu du siècle, quand la population de colons en Virginie représentaient environ 11.000 personnes, les Africains ne comptaient que pour 300 environ. N'importe lequel d'entre eux - Africain, Anglais, Écossais ou Irlandais - devait s'estimer heureux s'il vivait plus longtemps que les termes de leur contrat. Sur 300 enfants venus de Grande-Bretagne entre 1619 et 1622, seuls 12 étaient encore vivants en 1624"
Nell Irvin Painter in "Histoire des Blancs" (2010) d'après Don Jordan et Michael Walsh, "White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain's White Slaves in America" (2008) #colonisation#esclavage#racisme#lectureDécoloniale
Dans "Anatomie des Anglais" d'Emerson, "force physique, vigueur, virilité, énergie se dégagent comme étant le prolongement naturel du gout pour le sang des premiers Saxons qu'il présente avec amour."
Nell Irvin #Painter in "Histoire des Blancs" (2010)