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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How do we know Beethoven WASN’T black tho?
Black entitlement and racism need to start being discussed.
He was not black. He could not have been black. He would not have been black. End of story. (Mic drop).
No they did not. On the Voyager capsule, which included each country's choice of their musical moments to be cast into the void of outer space for eternity, Austria chose Mozart's The Magic Flute, while Germany chose Beethoven's 9th.
I thought we were told that there was to be no cultural appropriation. Was the music changed to rap?
These people are nuts and getting nuttier every day, heaven help us. Beethoven was born in Germany and spent most of his life in Vienna. I happen to go past his house a couple of times in my younger years on my way to the Heurigen. Now a historic site. I am glad it did not get wiped out during the war when they bombed Vienna. Where did the time go ?
Rock and Roll music was created by black people. There’s no debate about it. Whites copied and modified it.
That Death Mask is just a cover to systemically keep the black man down and keep people from learning the truth that Beethoven, like all great and good Europeans, was actually African.
Former Vice President Joe Biden claimed that the incandescent light bulb was invented by a black man, “not some white guy named Edison”. Google ‘American Inventors’ or ‘American Scientists’ and see what you get.
why not a black woman? This is anti-woman
Hamilton was black. At least he was the last time I saw him.
Ministry of Truth is hard at work.
“That’s stupid. Now watch how many of those kids grow up believing that Beethoven was literally a black man.”
Already happening for years:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/transition.112.117?seq=1
Because Blacks created the Blues and the Blues were the foundation of early Rock doesn't give the cucks at Rolling Stones and PBS the authority to grant all Rock to Blacks.
But that is what the lame "documentary" claimed. Not just the start of Rock and Roll, but for the start of every variant they found one Black band that was doing something kinda sorta similar and dubbed them the inspiration for that variant.
What a pathetic insult to a great and creative man. This is racism at its core. These leftist nitwits have no shame. Show them no quarter. They must be crushed.
That may be the plan.. look at how much other histpry they’ve changed :/
Let's say maybe so, maybe not.
Still, no one ever asks, "WTFDWIMIHW"?
cultural appropriation?
Who used a number 2 pencil to write all those symphonies.
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