For the first paper, i’ll be choosing the painting by the artist Kehinde Wiley because I found this particular image so similar to ancient paintings where the artists show the power and victorious movement of emperors, to be exact here is Jacques-Louis David’s Napoleon Crossing the Alps. Kehinde painted a person of color instead of an Napoleon but the image still sends the same strong message that a powerful person is ready to lead a community or nation, be it Napoleon or people of color. It also uses some European traditions to recreate something new just like how John Berger describes in episode 1 of Ways of seeing. 

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