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Chantuelle Red Hands

Chantuelle Red Hands

ShortKnee can be traced back to the spoken word traditions of the West African Chantuelle, oral libraries whose recollections made bearable the suffering of slaves on the plantations of Grenada. Once a disguise and a way to compromise, West African masquerade...

Grenada Heritage – I remember

Grenada was discovered hundreds of years before Columbus, by several waves of peoples coming from the South American Amazon region. All that is left of them are the numerous pottery sherds and their rock art found in various sites across the country, including the...
Chantuelle mocking death

Chantuelle mocking death

Flemish-Belgian painter James Ensor grew up in the back of a carnival and theatre store, so naturally he painted things associated with carnival and the theatre, including his 1888 Masks Mocking Death and 1899 Self Portrait with Masks. According to one critic, his...
Chantuelle – Cain revisited

Chantuelle – Cain revisited

Outspoken Mexican painter David Alfaro Siqueiros thought that truly substantive art came from a combination of political and aesthetic ideals mixed with modern techniques, as depicted in his 1947 work, Cain in the United States. I reworked that image using the...