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London Artist Aisha Mohamed Remixed Van Gogh’s Paintings To Feature Black Women

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London Artist Aisha Mohamed Remixed Van Gogh’s Paintings To Feature Black Women

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When you add black women to anything, it’s an automatic level-up! That’s why we’re so excited about 22-year-old London-based digital artist Aisha Mohamed, who decided to add a black girl magic spin to Van Gogh’s classic floral paintings. That’s right, she’s reimagined the legendary artist’s paintings using black women!

“Black women are art. And not only when our bodies are sexualised and oiled up. I feel like I have a responsibility as a black woman to represent us in my art,” Mohamed told Buzzfeed.

And represent us, she did! Mohamed used her skills to add images of Solange, Alek Wek, Zoe Kravitz and more into the classic paintings.

“We live in a time where social media allows us direct access to different versions of our blackness, I wanted to make something that young black girls could feel connected to,” noted Mohamed.

Mohamed tweeted her gorgeous images:

 

And received a hugely positive response:

And the warm reception left Mohamed — to use her own words — “shook.”

“What especially touched me were the comments. I had one comment that told me my art had made their day. I never knew my art could make someone feel like that,” Mohamed said.

And if you’re wondering how Mohamed got into digital artistry?

“This passion of mine actually first came about in my Tumblr days when I was 16 [or] 17, I made a lot of ‘fan art’ but eventually grew out of it,” said the artist. “It was only a few months ago that I picked Photoshop up again, but this time focusing on something very important to me – black women.”

Oh, and if you’re looking for prints of these gorgeous reimagined paintings, Mohamed tweeted …

 

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