” A blend of social commentary and humor is clearly in evidence in works such as Before the Battle: Chickin ’ Dumplin ’, which shows a Confederate solider kneeling to kiss a topless black woman on the breast as she drops a chicken leg in surprise. “I want to provoke the audience in the most enjoyable way possible, ” Walker told Artnews “I think of my art as a kind of melodrama, producing a certain giddiness that entertains but also empowers. In a way, Walker ’s goal with her art is to make the viewer gasp and laugh at the same time. “It is hard to think of another artist in the last three or four years who has emerged as rapidly, ” commented Alexis Worth on Walker in a 1996 issue of Art in New England. Shocking the art world with her black silhouette depictions of blacks and whites engaged in situations ranging from lynchings to rape and even bestiality during the pre- Civil War South, Kara Walker has achieved both notoriety and acclaim in the art world while still in her twenties.
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