William Gillespie

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

@WilbanksThorn #arth287

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

@WilbanksThorn I think that it could have some cultural or past significance, but that figure certainly seems to be elevated.

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

@sisisheriff I think he is contrasting night and day, past and future, country and city, among other things here #arth287

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

@Jake_UNC I think she's alive, judging by the smile #arth287

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

@flarebrwn I do like the idea of the connection of nutrient giving/taking #arth287

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

@galina_samantha I think it allows you to place any figure there you want, making it more person to person. #arth287

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

What is the link between the left and right parts of the work? Is there a contrast of day and night here, right to left? #arth287

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

What is the significance of the grape-like figures? And why is the figure nude with a necklace? #arth287

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

@sarahkha111 W.E.B. DuBois said that black people have no choice but to resist, whereas white people have the choice to look away (paraphrased a bit)

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

@sarahkha111 A great quote, and one which shows us that while white folks had the choice, black people had no choice.

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

I like the emphasis that is placed on black women resisting. I think that those images are somehow more powerful #arth287

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

I wonder if images of black passivity were stronger than those of black resistance, even though only the former were 'acceptable' #arth287

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@RayWinner3 I think it's intentionally to make that a focal point and to accentuate the hair, because that's the only place in the painting that there appears to be any texture.

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

Is it possible that the figure is on a train? #arth287

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

@carlyler_unc I think the squareness of the subject's head is a way to accentuate the forlorn-ness of the figure, and to dramatize his emotion.

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

Is the white surrounding the figure's head an attempt to make him Christ-like? If so, why venerate him in this way? #arth287

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

@trezise_zeke Well said, I ilke the phrase 'a time tested way of authenticity'

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

"Finally, for many people this 'New Negro' movement was not so much a movement, a moment ... but a mood, a sentiment ... in which black practitioners were valuable" #ARTH287

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

@cameron_putnam It's amazing how these monuments were erected with such a thin veil of 'duty' and 'honor' and how we fail to see through that today.

[William Gillespie @williamarth2]

@kvrin_ And maybe not even move all of them there- not that you were suggesting that- but the article suggests that some of them were mass produced with little artistic merit. Perhaps the ones that are significant, but the 'common soldier' monuments probably shouldn't go.