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I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the whi
I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the whi
I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the whi
I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the whi
I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the whi
I was making big paintings with mythological themes. When I started painting black figures, the whi
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with thatKara Walker:
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There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black art' was aKara Walker:
Sugar crystallizes something in our American soul. It is emblematic of all industrial processes. AnKara Walker:
The illusion is that most of my work is simply about past events: a point in history and nothing elKara Walker:
A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpectKara Walker:
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I've seen people glaze over when they're confronted with racism, and there's nothing more, you knowKara Walker:
I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.