The Spellcaster's Source Hoodoo and Voodoo Witchcraft Blog of Talia Felix

This post was inspired by someone in a historical art group on Facebook asking, "Are there no black artists who worked in these years [1850-1950]?"  The answer to that is, there weren't many working in Fine Art due to reasons I presume I don't have to explain; nevertheless there were a few who made it. And they're often overlooked due to their artwork looking just the same as anything else from the time. Indeed, there's an assumption nowadays that a black artist must be making work about the experience of being black. Surely , you might think, he'd paint black subjects, or his art would look African-inspired! This was not the expectation of art in the 19th century, nor would it have likely been popular under the circumstances of the time. A person painting African-inspired art would have been denigrated to the level of "folk artist" and any attempts infiltrate the Fine Art world with such pieces would have been ridiculed, at best, as evidence of...