Open Casket
Open Casket is a painting that made in 2016 by Dana Schutz. Subject in the painting is a 14 year old boy named Emmett Till who was Lynched by two white men in Mississippi in 1955. This artwork was included at the 2017 Whitney Biennial exhibition in New york curated by christopher Y. Lew and Mia Locks. The painting caused controversy within the protest and calls for painting's destruction.
Background
The painting was made by Dana schutz in August 2016 in response to media coverage of gun violance to a black man from police. The potrait is based on a photograph of Till's mutilated body-- where his mother insisted for the casket to remain be opened, to raise awareness of the graphic realities of racism in the U.S. that was published in The Chicago Defender and Jet magazine. "The photograph of Emmett Till felt analogous to the time: what was hidden was now revealed" Schutz told in Artnet.
Reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Casket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
[[Category: Black / Anti-Black Racism in Arts]]
