‘not everyone has the same colour, the same language, or the same customs, but they have the same heart, the same blood & the same need for love.’ #art#history: i couldn't decide which image i'd draw to celebrate the birth (#otd in 1906) of the glorious josephine, so here are two. if anyone merits multiple illustrative odes, it's la baker. why? [A THREAD] #josephineBaker#illustration#france#music#film#stLouis#resistance#civilRights
Just to distract you for a moment; here's an interesting piece on the enduring influence of Josephine Baker on art (its essentially an extended exhibition review).
Like Muhammad Ali because of the sphere in which their careers developed, their cultural influence can be downplayed...
I always admired Josephine Baker, first because of her beauty and style, later (when I learned more about her), for her smartness, bravery and activism.
What an inspirational person.
I'll be back to Berlin soon, and am surely going to visit the exhibition.
On this day in 1963, in the shadow of MLK’s famous March on Washington speech, Josephine Baker gave a power speech of her own.
“I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents…but I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad…and then look out, ’cause when Josephine opens her mouth, they hear it all over the world.”
#art#history: josephine baker was born on 3rd june in 1906, but i've only just had the time to commemorate her through art - & i suppose that's okay because any day is a fine time to honour such a phenomenal human being.
there follows a gigathread about the legend, la baker, should you wish to read it. #josephineBaker#france#portraiture#illustration#civilRights#music#cinema