In this piece, Aelia analyzes three paintings: Amaral’s The Negress, Malfatti’s Tropical and Heward’s Hester. Using a feminist and iconoclastic lens, Aelia reveals the role of white women artists in perpetuating the racist and sexist rules that reduced and marginalized women of colour in the institution of French art critics. I enjoyed editing this piece because the intra-gendered relationship between white women artists and their women subjects is often neglected, along with the harm that white women artists have caused to their women of colour subjects.

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