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13234515, I mean... Posted by Nodima, Wed Feb-14-18 09:48 AM
you can not like the art, but don't be an asshole and act like you aren't seeing what the man is doing.
he keeps harping on the one with the small semen painted on it...forgetting that these are MASSIVE (for scale: https://culturestories.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/WILEY-at-Brooklyn-2015_10-e1476184041944.jpg ) pieces and that particular piece - the only one with the semen on it - is dominated by a man on a horse in U.S. Army camouflage, taking a charge stance in front of a mural of ovaries.
For more scale: http://smarthistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/red.png Original Napoleon piece: https://mkmcdonald.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/wiley1.png?w=560
(arguably, Wiley's modern version also poses and appears more masculine than Napoleon in the original)
Even in THAT instance he refuses to look past "black man surrounded by semen" to see that the painting is clearly one of Wiley's most heterosexual pieces. It's also a feminist piece, clearly, but it is undeniably from a heterosexual male perspective.
So...I guess it's not a stretch to say he'd overlook all the 18th century art...not even references really but direct lifts in the poses he chooses.
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