Description: Title: Darker Than The Color Of My True Love's Hair Artist: HEBRU BRANTLEY Edition: xx/230 Type: Printed on 330gsm Museum Cotton Smooth Rag Paper Size: 33" x 24" Notes: Limited Edition Screen Printed Poster of 230, signed and numbered by the artist. In "Darker Than The Color Of My True Love's Hair", Hebru uses a collage-like technique to embellish and adorn the hair wrap, which has become a cultural fixture in Black female beauty. Brantley paints imagery into the headscarf in a fragmented and disjointed way, giving reference to the psyche. In the scarf, he references Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon", a 1970's comic rendering of the female superhero Storm, as well as quilting, a folk art interwoven into the history of Black bodies in the United States. Brantley also calls into question the ideas of blackness and femininity. The figure, regally poised, with pearls dripping from her neck, recedes into the saturated blue and the work becomes about her hair and head. The head wrap acts as a banner of physiological insight, a physical crown, and an embellishment of beauty. Barely holding her hair, the head wrap, while an image of empowerment and a reference to black beauty, cannot even contain the black female in all her fullness.
Price: 3750 USD
Location: New York, New York
End Time: 2025-01-19T01:37:49.000Z
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Artist: Hebru Brantley
Signed By: Hebru Brantley
Signed: Yes
Title: Darker Than The Color Of My True Love's Hair
Period: Ultra Contemporary (2020 - Now)
Material: Paper
Framing: Framed
Subject: Love, Woman, African
Type: Print
Year of Production: 2018
Theme: Love
Features: Limited Edition
Unit Quantity: 1
