![]() ![]() ![]() In the foreground meadow, a variety of transgressions take place that are cultural, sexual, and social in nature. Also making appearances are the late eighteenth-century explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark (depicted at the far left of the painting grappling with a bear, with Sacagawea just beyond them) artists Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) (seen just to the right of Miss Chief, wearing a striped shirt and surrounded by Black men in poses reminiscent of his Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907), George Catlin (1796–1872), and Paul Kane (1810–1871) (both on the far right, wearing buckskin) and figures from Indigenous culture and prophecy, including the white buffalo, the shape-shifter who gave the gift of seven sacred ceremonies to the Lakota people. ![]() ![]() Indigenous peoples, trappers, and explorers circle around her. Kent Monkman’s alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, wears only a pair of pumps and a pink shawl draped and fluttering over her arm as she strolls through a wild and detailed scene of homoerotic imagery, violence, and debauchery. The Triumph of Mischief is a seminal work that provides a multi-layered critique of colonization. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa Gustave Doré, Le triomphe de Christianisme sur le paganisme ( The Triumph of Christianity Over Paganism), 1868, oil on canvas, 300 x 200 cm, Art Gallery of Hamilton. Kent Monkman, The Triumph of Mischief, 2007 ![]()
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