This article looks at the roots of colourism and how it has impacted the interaction of dark-skinned women with light-skinned women. |
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Dark Girls, a 2011 documentary by American film-makers Bill Duke and D Channsin Berry, sought to rip the lid off colourism. |
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If colourism is what allowed black folk to hold on to their dignity, Bride was never going to be allowed any. |
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His paintings distinguish themselves by a warm colourism, a great sensitivity and a great love for life. |
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That skin‑bleaching cosmetics have persisted for decades signals the enduring legacy of colourism. |
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After the Second World War, they dominated in art schools, and the aesthetic doctrine of colourism turned out to be one of the more influential and long lasting. |
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The black outlines which anticipate printing sit oddly with the painterliness of The Woodcutter's Nephew with the Fisher-girl, its soft colourism and receding landscape. |
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These works reveal the influence of the art of Venice which he had visited en route to Rome in their glowing colourism and loosely constructed compositions. |
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Indeed, the logic that the painter has attributed to the colours, by keeping them in their truth and pigment authenticity with the world, as the colours of the world, make abstract colourism Morandini's archetype. |
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A pictorial and projective fresco put on canvas in an austere colourism, which evokes the deepest strata of our civilizations, myths and legends, producing a contemporary message, in abstract art. |
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Colourism refers to discrimination based on skin colour. |
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