Obama Portrait Artist Also Painted Black Women Holding Severed White Heads
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It turns out Kehinde Wiley, the artist former President Obama hand-picked to paint his Secret Garden-esque likeness, also has a penchant for painting disturbing images of black women holding severed white peoples’ heads.
Here’s a fun example:
This particular painting is called “Judith and Holofernes,” which refers to a story from the apocryphal Book of Judith which inspired a whole bunch of art during the Renaissance and Baroque periods. While the original story did involve a woman whacking off a guy’s head, Wiley’s choice to use a black woman holding a dead white person’s severed head is clearly a deliberate one.
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Having actually read the Book of Judith, the image does not resemble in the least - the plot line of the story of a woman who whilst within the enemy camp, made a decision which involved good old-fashioned retribution against the man she killed.
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