Standards of Beauty: The Place of the Black Muse in Nineteenth Century Art by Olevia Sesay
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Overview: Defining beauty standards anywhere is a problematic subject matter since beauty as an idea is so subjective. we all have our own ideas about who or what we consider beautiful. Beauty is not only personally subjective but also culturally so. It is no wonder then that the pervading definition of the black woman’s beauty through a European cultural lens has been and continues to be a point of social and cultural unease. It may have been no different in nineteenth century Europe for artist models Fanny Eaton in London and Laure, whose last name we do not know, in Paris. Both were black women. Both were artists models for famous nineteenth century European artists. Both were called beautiful by the artists they modeled for.
What were the artists’ reasons for painting these women? What social, cultural or personal viewpoints made them call these women beautiful at a time in European history when black was seen as anything but beautiful?
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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