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I love, love, love these paintings.

their cute but i'm not sure their functional for any room other than a child's.

Cute and juvenile.
Maybe I would appreciate them more and they had a deeper meaning if I understood what the words said.

I don't think her work is cute, I think her work is insulting.

Look at her website, she paints black people to look like monkeys. A sensibility I'm surprised you're allowing and promoting on AT.

I don't know what it is about them, but I'm just not impressed at all.

a little more research could reveal much more interesting work at the same price point.

ok so i just looked at her website...she's from Copenhagen yet most of her art work looks like she lives in the heart of an african safari. i imagine the black people in her picture that you think look like monkeys...are supposed to be african tribesman or local african village people...yet it comes off as somewhere between a sea monkey and an old minstrel show. how tacky. how much is she selling these for?

I don´t get the message in the first painting:

"La madre - no hay que una"

What does it mean? I am from Spain, spanish is my mother tongue and that sentence just doesn't make any sense.

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I really like this woman's work. My college roommate lived in Mali while working for Peace Corps around 2000. She sent me postcards of african dancers that were hand painted by local (black) artists that were beautiful, colorful and are very treasured by me. Gitte Brandt's paintings of african people are very similar to the work by black artists in Mali. I'm surprised people are offended by these pictures. They must also have their panties in a bunch over Robert Downey Jr.'s Oscar nod. Relax, people, it's art.

i'm not 5 years old so maybe I don't get it....i'm not so much offended as baffled why she chooses to paint the black people in her paintings as if it were the early 1900s in a minstrel show though. has anyone figured out what language this junk is in?

Spanish! (first painting)... yeah right! and the others french
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Delikatissen
i think she is going for "Madre no hay más que una"
it's ridiculous, she could have at least made sure that she had the saying right!

I completely agree with you "ratita", you can almost translate that sentence literally. And honestly? what do the flag and the animal have to do with "madre no hay más que una"? I insist, I don't get it!

One of the paintings of a black person on her site actually says: "I eat bananas and dream of chocolate".
oh. my. god.

one of the pictures of a black person on her site actually says: "I eat bananas and dream of chocolate"
oh. my. god.

ha ha...

She's lucky she can afford to indulge her whims. Can it even be called naïve art?

Good God! I rarely do a "WTF were you thinking" post but, seriously, WTF were you thinking?

Her treatment of people of color in her "paintings" borders on racist, if not completely ignorant.

Not good... not good at all...

i like the giraffe, and i think the colors are lovely - this sort of work could be quite beautiful in a children's room (the animals. the people baffle me... to be fair, her white angel is drawn the same way, but the history isn't the same).

Guys, she works as a cultural journalist. I doubt very much she's a racist... It's just an artstyle, perhaps it has a deeper meaning that eludes you?

Not everything has to be about racism.

I think we can all agree that at a basic level it just makes some people uncomfortable, and that in itself should give pause.

Unfortunately, AT doesn't feel the same or someone just didn't do enough research.

She is white bourgeois women who lives in exclusively white culture of Denmark. If modernlust can not understand that is your problem not ours!
It's inappropriate for her to paint black people as a black person from Mali paints themselves.

It just does not cross over!
Similar to blacks musicians within Hip hop culture calling other blacks the N word, White people can not and should not do that.

Denmark might not be burdened with the USA's horrible history, but it's still insensitive to depict paint black people in this manner if she is reaching out to an international audience.

I actually like her animal paintings, but I can't not be skeptical of artists who are married to their dealers. Also, it seems that exotification in Europe is not considered to be distasteful as it is here. They still call asians "orientals" and make generalized assumption of foreigners on a daily basis.

And while I wouldn't go as far as calling this woman racist, pointing out that she's a 'cultural journalist', and that is 'art' proves nothing. That's like the fratty guys in movies saying "I'm not racist, I have friends who are black!"