Spanish Magazine Depicts Michelle Obama As A Slave

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Spanish Magazine Depicts Michelle Obama As A Slave

By Alyssa Rosenberg on Aug 29, 2012 at 10:35 am


Fuera de Serie, a Spanish magazine, has created an international uproar with its latest cover, in which it photoshops First Lady Michelle Obama into a French painting, and ends up portraying her as a slave woman, with her right breast exposed. If the cover had been published in America, it’s easy to imagine the quarters from which it might have come, and what the image would have been intended to convey. But the full context is much more complicated—and much more revealing—than that.

I don’t think the intention of the cover is to be racist, or to denigrate Mrs. Obama in any way. (...)

http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/08/29/760971/spanish-magazine-michelle-obama-slave/

[hedgehog]

1. It may be a refernce to this painting:

"it is evident that Delacroix emphasizes the female aspect in his artwork. For Delacroix, the image of woman symbolizes all the positive aspects of humanity. He depicts an image of the bare breasted woman in order to make a sublime symbolic reference to protective motherhood in its entire complexity. Her uncovered breast does not have sexual connotations."

http://pijet.com/2009/03/21/delacroixs-painting-liberty-leading-the-people/

[dipsydoodle]

2. Nope - its this one by Marie-Guillemine Benoist

The original is in the Louvre.



But personally I prefer this by William Sidney Mount which I've had a copy of for years.

[muriel_volestrangler]

3. Link with the picture you're talking about:

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/Slavery-is-a-Woman.html