Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix, “Horses Coming Out of the Sea,” 1860
"'Orientalism' was a term first used several centuries ago to describe scholarship and art by 'Westerners'—shorthand for Europeans and North Americans—who sought to depict largely Islamic cultures of North Africa and Asia. Some 40 years ago, it came under criticism for cultural bias. Despite these changes in attitudes, one subject in Orientalist art has remained universally admired: the region’s horses. The 19th-century European and American artists who specialized in scenes of North Africa, the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula were as enamored of the equines of those lands as were the inhabitants. The first collectors of Orientalist horse paintings were those among the affluent of Europe and America who hungered to see expressions of heroic values. ... The Arab masters of these equine marvels were accorded a similarly romanticized respect. ..."
AramcoWorld
Georges Washington, “The Falconers,” date unknown
2018 April: Orientalism - Edward W. Said (1978)
No comments:
Post a Comment