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Elizabeth Colomba (born 1976, Épinay-sur-Seine, France; active New York, NY), Laure (Portrait of a Negress), 2018. Oil on canvas. Private Collection. Artwork © Elizabeth Colomba / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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Elizabeth Colomba French born 1976 “Armelle” 1997 Oil on canvas Photo is taken by: @robertpuffjr Armelle, a portrait of the artist's cousin, was inspired by John Singer Sargent's Madame X, which hangs nearby. Armelle gazes toward a watercolor painted in the Bahamas by Winslow Homer, Under the Palm Tree (1885, National Gallery of Art). Throughout her art, Colomba centers stories of Black women, drawing on her extensive knowledge of art history and her academic training to subvert Western notions of beauty. As she explains: "I ... start from a story that exists and remake it in a way that is appealing to me, dressing the subjects in a certain way and making it more about my roots, which are a mix of French and Caribbean." (This writeup is taken from the description at the museum.) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA #elizabethcolomba #colomba #historyofart #arthistory #greatworksofart #artmuseum #art #artist #masterpiece #painting #museumvisit #artlover #artists #artblogger (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch8pmLYLLB7/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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@artistelizabethcolomba ✨ I made 1492 for the biennial in Martinique in 2013. It’s an allegory about colonization, depicting the effect New World exploration had on the ecology in the West Indies and its people. #supportblackart #elizabethcolomba #1492 #colonization #blackart #caribbeanart https://www.instagram.com/p/B7BPyZrhdj5/?igshid=9952xedguc1i

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Elizabeth Colomba  Chevalier de St. Georges Oil on canvas 36 x 46 source

Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges (December 25, 1745 – June 10, 1799) was a champion fencer, classical composer, virtuoso violinist, and conductor. Born in the French colony of Guadeloupe, the son of George Bologne de Saint-Georges, a wealthy married planter, and Nanon, his African slave. de Saint Georges is known as the Black Mozart and is the first classical composer of African ancestry.

Educated in France since age 7, de Saint Georges is famous as a fencer, especially for his duel against Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont known as the Chevalier d'Éon. Joseph also fought on the Republican side during the French Revolution, in the Légion St.-Georges, the first all-black regiment in Europe.

Elizabeth Colomba is a figurative painter who adapts the technical approach and themes of traditional Western portraiture in order to interrupt stereotypical representation of the black body. By mixing classical painting with inherently black signifiers, including references to her own Caribbean heritage, she has developed a visual language to reconfigure the canon to include black subjectivity and its attendant narratives. Born in France, from  Martinican parents. She studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris and has exhibited her work in a variety of places including Los Angeles, Switzerland, Martinique, Florence, and New York. www.elizabeth-colomba.com

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🎨 #ArtIsAWeapon @newyorkermag #Juneteenth cover by artist @elizabethcolomba: "To highlight Juneteenth, I was commissioned by the New Yorker to illustrate the cover! The words of historian #MitchKachun can resonate with all of us that day: “celebrations of the end of slavery should have three goals: to celebrate, to educate, and to agitate.” - #ElizabethColomba #juneteenth2022 Reposted from @newyorkermag Today marks 157 years since the U.S. Army General Gordon Granger announced to the people of Galveston, Texas, that slavery was over. Granger’s announcement came in 1865, more than two years after President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation. “Juneteenth exists as a counterpoint to the Fourth of July,” the New Yorker staff writer Jelani Cobb has written: “the latter heralds the arrival of American ideals, the former stresses just how hard it has been to live up to them.” At the link in our bio, @elizabethcolomba, this week’s cover artist, discusses the meaning of Juneteenth, the century-old family portraits that inspired her cover, and the necessity of painting Black bodies into historically white spaces. www.newyorker.com/culture #BlackArtists #ElizabethColomba #JuneteenthArt #JubileeDay #EmancipationDay #BlackGirlArtGeeks https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce_ytaNgfJM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=