{"id":3637,"title":"La Venus Negra","dimensions":"95.5 x 93 cm","date_begin":"1992-01-01","material":"oil, paper, canvas, panel","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":46,"category_id":9,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"","stream_count_app":12,"permalink":"la-venus-negra--2","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":false,"category":{"en":"Painting","nl":"Schilderij","fr":"Peinture"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/006/887/large/picture.aspx.jpg?1329135397","poster_credits":"(c)Courtesy of the artist and Koplin del Rio Gallery, L.A.","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"The notion of beauty is a theme that has recurred in his work of Kerry James Marshall. He has made an entire series based on the figure of the Black Venus, that he derived from the popular Mexican cartoon series *La Venus Negra*: *“Up until then, I had not considered that a black woman could be considered as a goddess of love and beauty. Even, I took the classic European ideal for granted. After reading La Venus Negra I wanted to develop a stylised representation of a beauty that would be unequivocally black.”*"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"De notie van schoonheid is een thema dat vaak in het werk van Kerry James Marshall terugkeert. Hij maakt een reeks gebaseerd op de figuur van de zwarte Venus, die hij ontleende aan de Mexicaanse populaire stripreeks *La Venus Negra*, waarover hij zegt: *“Tot dan toe had ik nog niet overwogen dat  een zwarte vrouw beschouwd zou kunnen worden als een godin van liefde en schoonheid. Zelfs ik nam het klassieke Europese ideaal als vanzelfsprekend. Na het lezen van La Venus Negra wilde ik een gestileerde weergave ontwikkelen van een schoonheid die ondubbelzinnig zwart zou zijn.\"*"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"actors":[{"id":1222,"name":"Kerry James Marshall","category":{"en":"Creator","nl":"Vervaardiger","fr":"Créateur"}}]}