Tag: Slave
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21 Works, June 28th. is Otto Pilny’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #175
Otto Pilny (28 June 1866–22 July 1936) was a Swiss painter who specialized in Orientalist genre scenes. Some of the first nineteenth-century Orientalist paintings were intended as propaganda in support of French imperialism, depicting the East as a place of backwardness, lawlessness, or barbarism enlightened and tamed by French rule… Please follow link for full…
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Otto Pilny, The Slave Market 01 Paintings by the Orientalist Artists in the Nineteenth-Century, with footnotes, 40
Otto Pilny, (Swiss artist; 1866-1936) The Slave Market, c. 1910 Oil on canvas 520 x 347 mm, 20.5 x 13.6 in Private collection In an art historical context, Harem scenes depicted domestic spaces for the women in the Muslim societies, the males were only included in barbaric and sexual relations. This painting presents an unspecific Middle…
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