A Little Taste Outside Of Love Analysis

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By comparing “A Little Taste Outside of Love” (2007) by Mickalene Thomas (1971-Present) and “A Black Woman” (1775) by an unknown French painter this paper will demonstrate that although blacks were once degraded through the sexualization of their bodies in art, their nudity is now used to convey empowerment in contemporary art.
The formal elements to support this argument are the different posing of the exposed black female body in both pieces, whereas in Thomas’s piece the woman in laying with her back partially to the viewer and in “A Black Woman” the woman is covering herself with her arms crossing her chest, how the backgrounds differ in hue which has different effects on the emphasis of their bodies, whereas the Thomas’s piece has bright

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