Throughout my curate there are only people of African descent or the African people are the main subject of the artwork. The purpose of my curate is to show what Africans people were like during the late 1700’s through the 1800’s. In the textbook Gateways to Art: Understanding the Visual Art most of the Africans artworks are Ancient Egyptian, when Africans were Queens and Kings and in charge of themselves. With my curate I decided to show what the African life was after ancient civilization. The theme of my curate is enslaved because those were some of the hardest years for Africans from dealing with slavery, being dirt poor, and conformity. Although this was a hard time for African’s Black Venus, a bronze sculpture, is a contradiction to the perception of African’s at that time. Created by Charles Henri Joseph Cordier, standing only 15.6 by 8 inches, Black Venus was a sculpture of an African Woman who seemed to be of higher class. She had gold jewelry, her hair was styled nicely and she was clothed. Although most art showing Africans they are looking poor or serving/slaving it was nice to see an African woman be appreciated.
