BEETHOVEN ?
Posted on 12/18/2020 12:31:22 PM PST by MarvinStinson
The Centre of Fine Arts in Brussels announced the celebration of the 250th birthday of Ludwig van Beethoven by posting a portrait of the composer as a black African man.
The centre, also known as BOZAR, published a post on Wednesday of a still from a video entitled “Black Beethoven” by American artist Terry Adkins, which features a portrait of the late 18th and early 19th-century composer depicted a young black man with dreadlocks.
“In the work, Adkins presents a portrait of the iconic composer that slowly morphs into that of a young black man with short dreadlocks and back again. The repeated transformation of the image conveys Adkins’s unwillingness to settle the debate on Beethoven’s race,” the post explained.
In response to the mostly negative comments on the post, BOZAR added another post stating that the centre wanted to “be a place of art and culture open to all audiences, reflecting the diversity of Brussels and our society”.
The conspiracy theory that claims the German composer was a sub-Saharan African man, or had any recent African ancestry at all, has been thoroughly debunked.
Over the last several years, a trend has emerged in film and television to portray historical or fictional white European figures, as being performed by black or other ethnic minority actors.
Earlier this year it was announced that black actress Jodie Turner-Smith would be playing English Tudor queen and wife of Henry VIII, Anne Boleyn, in a television drama commissioned by Britain’s Channel 5.
In 2018, the BBC made a similar move in the Iliad, which featured black actors in several major roles, including the legendary Greek hero Achilles.
The Charles Dickens classic David Copperfield was also cast with British-Indian actor Dev Patel as the titular character.
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Blackface? I thought that wasn’t cool anymore.
BEETHOVEN ?
That’s stupid. Now watch how many of those kids grow up believing that Beethoven was literally a black man.
He wasn’t black. End of story.
Where’s all the screaming about cultural appropriation?
It’s actually kind of insulting and condescending. There are plenty of REAL black musicians and composers they could honor on other occasions, but they choose to falsify history for exactly WHAT purpose?
Propaganda works. The Austrians convinced most of us Americans that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German. -Tom
At what point do you say: “Enough of this pretend crap. Beethoven wasn’t black and no matter how woke you want to be, that’s just pure bullshit.”
So would portraying Hitler as a black or Asian be considered “art” as well?
Plaster death mask for Beethoven
Good point.
Nobody would object to portraying Louie Armstrong or MLK Jr as whites, I assume?
What???? I can’t hear you!!!!
I love it; someone should return the favor by making a new biopic of Gandhi with an Arnold Schwarzenegger look-alike (and sound-alike) in the leading role.
Q: What did the music teacher find on the piano stool?
A: Beethoven's Last Movement.
Evidently all, not even just much or most, Rock and Roll music was created by Blacks. Even punk rock.
So I guess it's no surprise that Beethoven was also of African American (or maybe Afro-Germanic?) ancestry.
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