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Caught the Changing of the Guard at the Royal Palace in Stockholm—and it was pure royal magic. 👑🇸🇪

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Want more than just a sneak peek? Our summer exhibition opening party is THIS FRIDAY, May 23!

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#横須賀美術館 #Yokosuka #ModernArtMuseum

先週末、横須賀美術館から。

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American artist Jordan Casteel's "Pretty in Pink" is a tightly cropped portrait of a beautiful young Black woman riding NY public transit. While the viewer’s proximity to the woman, due to the tight composition, suggests intimacy, the woman’s lack of direct engagement with the viewers maintains her distance. Her face and eyes (with pink makeup) stare downward towards the pink mobile phone in her hand and her loosely curled hair falls over the right side of her face, providing a slight shield. Her layers of pink and lavender clothing — a scarf and closed jacket, in addition to the cream-colored backpack resting on her lap — further close the woman off to visual consumption. Her body is not on display; instead, we are permitted a passing glimpse of her daily life. The painting’s title, Pretty in Pink, refers to the woman’s outfit, including accessories, all coordinating in a soft pink. In the United States, pink is strongly associated with the feminine, so Casteel’s depiction of a Black woman in this hyper-feminine color provides a striking counter to the history of the representation of Black women. With stereotypical representations swinging from masculine to excessively sexualized, Black women have long fought to be viewed as fully individualized people. The respectability politics the past 100+ years sought to correct these racist tropes, however, these efforts often limited women to containers of idealized middle class heteronormative femininity set by Black men. One of the most striking elements of the work is the woman’s long, sharply pointed nails, encircling her phone. While this manicure is now a common style, let's acknowledge the long history of nail art in African American communities as a form of expression stereotypically associated with a "lower class" or status. This marvelous portrait elevates this young, urban Black woman self-stylized in a sweetly feminine and modest manner to be viewed as an individual rather than a class or racial type.

Pretty in Pink by Jordan Casteel (American) - Oil on canvas / 2019 - Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Texas) #womeninart #art #fineart #oilpainting #pink #portrait #JordanCasteel #artwork #womensart #womenartists #womanartist #portraitofawoman #blackartist #africanamericanartist #ModernArtMuseum

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A woman with long curl-woven blond locks plus exaggerated facial features like bright red lips, wide grin, large oval eyes, and raised thin eyebrows engages viewers in 1/4 portrait while wearing a bare shoulder low-cut fancy dress with thin colorful straps. She stands outdoors under palm trees in front of an Arabian cityscape. Saïd’s depictions of women, often drawn from his social circles, reveal stark contrasts, especially in the portrayal of their hair. Notably, aristocratic women appear perfectly coiffed with an airbrushed quality, while models from more modest backgrounds are rendered with unkempt hair, emphasis placed on their coils and curls. The most emblematic of these instances is this famous painting as the golden locks are THE subject of the painting. The significance of hair as a historical marker of status and identity is key to understanding how Saïd's representations contribute to the power dynamics at stake. An emblematic figure of the Arab Renaissance (Nahda) and its pioneers, Mahmoud Saïd abandoned his law studies in Egypt to go to Paris where he joined the Julian Academy in 1920. Following the independence of Egypt in 2022, he sought, alongside other Egyptian artists such as Mahmoud Mokhtar or Georges Hanna Sabbagh, to create an Egyptian art both authentic and modern, anchored in a process of intellectual emancipation. In 1937, during the International Exhibition of Arts and Techniques Applied to Modern Life, this painting was exhibited in the Egyptian pavilion, which wanted to show continuity between its pharaonic past and its industrial present. Though Saïd painted primarily for his own edification, the pubic grew to appreciate his work in his later years. Artists belonging to the Egyptian Surrealist movement adopted Said as an honorary member and included his work in a few exhibits, selecting his famous painting, La Femme aux boucles d'or "The Woman with Golden Locks" for the cover of their first exhibition catalogue in 1940.

The woman with golden Locks (La femme aux boucles d'or) by Mahmoud Saïd (Egyptian) - Oil on canvas / 1933 - Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (France) #womeninart #portrait #painting #art #egyptianartist #MahmoudSaïd #artwork #oilpainting #MahmoudSaid #ModernArtMuseum #modernart #fineart #womanportrait