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Pascal Maitre: Amazing Africa

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Bata children after their First Communion, Equatorial Guinea by Pascal Maitre, 1989.

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A wedding in a refugee camp near Khartoum. (Sudan, 1995) - Pascal Maitre

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Congolese performance artist Julie Djikey Kim protests against pollution as a “human car,” with oil filters on her breasts and motor oil and ashes from burned tires smeared all over her body. Photograph by Pascal Maitre (via National Geographic)

Since graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts in Kinshasa, Djikey has used various technologies and art media to advance a politics of renewal - environmental renewal, and a transformation of stereotypical narratives in Congolese art. More on her art at AfricanWomenCinema Blogspot.

Her work, Ozonisation (2013) states:

This performance protests against the deterioration of the ozone layer due to the greenhouse gas emissions, the main chemo-physical element responsible for the overheating of the blue planet, which should always be green, without air pollution, and free of ultraviolet (UV) radiation.

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Marc Chagall, The Soldier Drinks, 1911-12, oil on canvas, 109.2 x 94.6 cm, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Source

According to Jennifer Blessing at the Guggenheim, Chagall had explained that The Soldier Drinks was based on his own recollections of tsarist soldiers during the Russo-Japanese war, where they were billeted with families between 1904 and 1905.

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Our man in Havana, Michael Eastman

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A Spanish Lady

Philip Hermogenes Calderon (1833–1898)

Atkinson Art Gallery Collection

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This incredible invention is keeping girls in school

For Trinitas Kunashe, like many girls in Malawi, getting her period was unexpected, unexplained and a burden for her everyday life. Often, girls who do not have access to pads prefer to stay home and out of school for the duration of their periods.

But Trinitas is changing that with her amazing new invention:

Made from bright and comfortable locally-sourced fabrics, Tina Pads are a hit amongst girls in her community. They are waterproof, practical and fun – and most importantly reusable.

Determined to make sure no girl is forced to miss school because of her period, Trinitas is a passionate believer in the power of education to change lives.

#SheWill Succeed

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No new friends

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Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her extensive travels in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia.

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Falstaff in the Washtub, Henry Fuseli, 1792

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FUSELI, Henry (1741-1825)

The Nightmare 1781 Oil on canvas, 101.6 × 127 cm Detroit Institute of Arts Ed. Orig. Lic. Ed.

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Jean-Étienne Liotard  Swiss, Geneva, about 1781 - 1783  Oil on canvas mounted on board  14 7/8 x 20 5/16 in.

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Jean-Etienne Liotard

The Chocolate Girl

1744-45

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Jean Etienne Liotard

Portrait of a Young Woman, late 19th century, pastel, 40.6 × 32.4 cm, Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri.

Liotard was a Swiss-French painter. He was an artist of great versatility, and though his fame depends largely on his graceful and delicate pastel drawings, he achieved distinction also by his enamels, copperplate engravings and glass painting. He also wrote a Treatise on the Art of Painting, and was an expert collector of paintings by the old masters.

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Niklaus Manuel Deutsch-Tempation of Saint Anthony