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A month into my freshman year of MICA and I've never been happier.

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And my favourite, The Swing (After Fragonard)

Shonibare uses the same distinctive fabric in his sculptures and installations to make copies of European costumes and furnishings. In The Swing (after Fragonard), Shonibare creates a sculpture of the central figure in Jean-Honore Fragonard’s 1776 painting. To many, the original painting represents the frivolous spirit and loose morality of French aristocracy shortly before the revolution. However, Shonibare’s work is not just a parody of the original: “I made a piece of work about this painting because I actually admire the work very much,” he says. “And I like the contradiction of taking something that’s supposedly ‘ethnic’ and putting that onto classical European painting.”