#guillaumin

[landschaftsmalerei]

Das Tal der Sedelle, 1897 von Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin

(1897, Öl auf Leinwand)

[artist-guillaumin]

Echo Rock, 1905, Armand Guillaumin

[kecobe]

Paysage d'automne, Agay Armand Guillaumin (French; 1841–1927) Oil on canvas ca. 1907 Christie’s, New York

[impressionism-art-blog]

Landscape, 1870, Armand Guillaumin

[wetreesinart]

Armand Guillaumin (Français, 1847-1927), Le Hameau de Peschadoire au soleil, 1895, huile sur toile, 80,3 x 65 cm, Rennes, Musée des Beaux Arts

[lhuilederose]

I originally started reading critical race theory in order to better understand gender theory and how sex (often seen as determining gender) is not an immutable characteristic of the human race and that “woman” is a myth not based on substantial reality or “difference” between the sexes. For me, linking the social conceived nature of “race” to “sex” made it easier to understand that there is no intrinsic characteristic of women or womanhood just as there is no intrinsic characteristic of the various “races” which stems from nature/is naturally occurring. 

Just as Black people are not oppressed because of their bodies (their race) women are not oppressed because of their bodies (their sex) but instead these myths of Blackness and Womanhood were created and emphasized to justify an ongoing oppression and solidify these “differences” as a natural and a continuous phenomenon.

There are (neutral) physical differences between groups of people but these differences are ascribed meaning by the oppressor class relating to the social function of the oppressed class (i.e slavery).  Also, these groups are not homogeneous even though they are described as being so.  Consequently, Black people were not enslaved because of physical characteristics such as skin color, physical stature, etc. but these “differences” were created and/or highlighted to justify their enslavement.  These groups (i.e woman, Black, etc.) as they have been defined in history have been exploited not for their somatic features but for their labor.  Furthermore, the notion or race and sex (gender) is a reflection of an ideological analysis of social relations and NOT to concrete and immutable categories (of difference). 

“In other words, there is no such thing as race in itself, but only the notion of race which is a product of industrial societies, only social relationships interpreted in racial terms.”

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Cottages in a landscape, 1896, Armand Guillaumin

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Crozant, solitude, 1915, Armand Guillaumin