[vc_row full_width=”stretch_row_content_no_spaces”][vc_column el_class=”.items”][pt_banner external_indent=”on” infinite_loop=”off” speed=”500″ autoplay=”off” about_block=”on” social_buttons=”on” categories=”on” arrows_position=”right-bottom” dots_position=”right-bottom” social_icon1=”youtube” social_icon2=”linkedin” social_icon3=”twitter” about_label=”Artist Bio” social_link1=”https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMZas9-RsOSTHuQKA-HAOrw” social_link2=”https://www.linkedin.com/company/noirpress/” social_link3=”https://twitter.com/noirpress_” about_heading=”The Artist” about_read_more_link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fportaltoai.noirlabs.org%2Ftransition-to-the-future%2F|title:Click%20to%20continue%20to%20Next%20Section” uniqid=”5d5fcaff87039″ facebook_link=”#” twitter_link=”#” instagram_link=”#” about_text=”Since the beginning of her art career, Harmonia Rosales’s main artistic concern has been focused on black female empowerment in Western culture. Her paintings depict and honor the African diaspora. The artist is entirely open to the ebb and flow of contemporary society in which she seeks to reimagine new forms of aesthetic beauty, snuggled somewhere between pure love and ideological counter-hegemony.

The black female bodies in her paintings are in memory of her ancestors, expressed in a way to heal and promote self-love. In addition, the approach that nourish Rosales’ art are closely linked to her multi-cultural Afro-Cuban background.

Her subjects embody something within us all. They serve as conduits to an inner struggle within our society, which the artist depicts using metaphorical crowns and deities. The art is and will always be to encourage sympathy, empathy and empowerment.

(Click “Read more“ to go to next section“)” categories_items=”left,bottom” unic_id=”59a6cbde1b42c” dots_color=”#ffffff” about_image=”3583″ about_sub_heading=”Harmonia Rosales” about_button_hex=”#ffffff”][pt_banner_item link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”middle” uniqid=”5d5fde83e39f2″ heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” sub_heading=”Quantum Afro Futures” link=”url:%23|||” text=”“Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; it is the only approach which opens on to the universal.”” image=”3663″][pt_banner_item link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h2″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”middle” uniqid=”5d5fde876bb1b” heading=”“Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; it is the only approach which opens on to the universal.”” link=”url:%23|||” text=”Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization, 1974″][pt_banner_item link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h2″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”bottom” uniqid=”5d5fdb0354688″ heading=”The Creation of God” link=”url:%23|||” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” text=”Afro-Cuban, Chicago-based painter, Harmonia Rosales repaints classic European art assets in order to return our global imaginaries to an understanding of The Creator as a Black woman” image=”3534″][pt_banner_item link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h3″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”middle” heading=”“When all we see in art history is a male-dominated white heaven, we become the inferior to this gender and cultural imperialism. Replacing the white male figures — the most represented— with people I believe have been the least represented can begin to recondition our minds to accept new concepts of human value.”” link=”url:%23|||” text=”Harmonia Rosales, Dazed, 2018″ uniqid=”621c53900efff”][pt_banner_item background_video_controls=”” play_in_lightbox=”” link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h2″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”bottom” uniqid=”621c5c9a3e223″ heading=”The Birth of Eve” link=”url:%23|||” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” image=”3687″ video_url=”https://blog-staging.portalx.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Birth-of-Eve-H.-Rosales.mp4″ text=”Artist Harmonia Rosales rethinks the origins of humanity by introducing us to a possible version of Eve’s own mother, possibly God as a Black woman. From Idalis Love: “Rosales helps to reframe the image of Black women by elevating them beyond the position of those who seek to oppress them. Rosales’ work gives black women the space to heal and allow for a surplus of self-love in the aspects of themselves that they have been taught to hate.“”][pt_banner_item link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h2″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”bottom” heading=”The Birth of Oshun” link=”url:%23|||” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” text=”Rosales re-imagines Sandro Botticelli’s ‘Birth of Venus’ as the ‘Birth of Oshun’, the benevolent and venerated Yoruba goddess of fertility, sensuality, and prosperity.” image=”3573″][pt_banner_item background_video_controls=”” play_in_lightbox=”” link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h2″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”bottom” uniqid=”621cd7d4729f2″ heading=”Assumption of a Woman” link=”url:%23|||” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” image=”3675″ video_url=”https://blog-staging.portalx.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Assumption-of-a-Woman-H.-Rosales.mp4″ text=”In this and many of her pieces, H. Rosales is giving Black women, Black people, historical examples of their radiance, beauty, intellect, and power.”][pt_banner_item link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h3″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”middle” uniqid=”5d5fde937c6d6″ heading=”“When you consider that all human life came out of Africa, the Garden of Eden and all, then it only makes sense to paint God as a black woman, sparking life in her own image. By creating positive works of art using black women, the complete opposite from which we were used to seeing, we can begin to deconstruct our power structure.”” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” link=”url:%23|||” text=”Artist Harmonia Rosales”][pt_banner_item background_video_controls=”” play_in_lightbox=”” link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ decor_elements=”” text_color=”white” heading_size=”h2″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”bottom” uniqid=”621ce27d1d219″ heading=”Black Madonna – Poland church” link=”url:%23|||” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” image=”3681″ text=”Before there were depictions of Mary and Jesus as Caucasians, depictions of Black Madonna and the holy child were ubiquitous across European churches. This image was photographed in a church in Czestochowa, Poland” video_url=”https://blog-staging.portalx.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Black-Madonna-Poland-Church.mp4″][pt_banner_item background_video_controls=”on” play_in_lightbox=”” link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h2″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”bottom” heading=”The Resurrection-Monastery in Mount Athos, Greece” link=”url:%23|||” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” text=”The Resurrection. Third quarter of the 16th century. The Holy Monastery of Pantokrator, Mount Athos, Greece” uniqid=”622277679a645″ video_url=”https://blog-staging.portalx.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/The-Resurrection.mp4″][pt_banner_item background_video_controls=”on” play_in_lightbox=”” link_button=”on” link_play=”on” link_style=”style2″ css_animation=”top-to-bottom” text_color=”white” heading_size=”h2″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”bottom” heading=”Deisis – Christ in Majesty” link=”url:%23|||” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” image=”3758″ text=”Source unconfirmed, but likely Russian monastery or church mural art from the Byzantine era in the style of much Byzantine art depicted in the volume “Russian Icons“ by Vladimir Ivanov” uniqid=”6222d387e8b5c” video_url=”https://blog-staging.portalx.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Deisis.mp4″][pt_banner_item link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h4″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”middle” uniqid=”622275fa7aad2″ heading=”“When we say that the Ancestors of the Blacks were the first to invent mathematics, astronomy, the calendar, sciences in general, arts, religion, agriculture, social organization, medicine, writing, technique, architecture; that they were the first to erect buildings out of 6 million tons of stone (the Great Pyramid) as architects and engineers; that they built the immense temple of Karnak; that they sculpted the first colossal statues—we are merely expressing the plain unvarnished truth that no one today can refute by arguments worthy of name.”” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” link=”url:%23|||” text=”Cheikh Anta Diop, The African Origin of Civilization, 1974″][pt_banner_item link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h2″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”bottom” uniqid=”621cd82203bb9″ heading=”Paintings inside of Ancient Kushite tombs (modern day Sudan)” link=”url:%23|||” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” image=”3671″][pt_banner_item link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h2″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”bottom” uniqid=”621cdaf70c68d” heading=”Imhotep, first recorded Architect & Physician” link=”url:%23|||” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” image=”3689″ text=”According to Robert Buaval’s The Orion Mystery, Imhotep is believed to be the first Architect and Physician known by name in written history. According to Ancient Egyptian tradition, he was the son of Ptah, the Founding God of Egypt, and descended from the Anunnaki. The complex Mathematical, Engineering and Astronomical knowledge Imhotep applied to the construction of the Giza Pyramid Complex is attributed to his Anunnaki heritage.”][pt_banner_item background_video_controls=”on” background_video_mute=”off” play_in_lightbox=”” link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h3″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”bottom” uniqid=”621ccc21bb539″ heading=”Lesser known Ancient African Scripts” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fportaltoai.noirlabs.org%2Ftransition-to-the-future%2F|title:Transition” link_text=”Continue to the next section” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” text=”Gods & Elders channel reviews Ancient African writing systems including Nsibidi, Adinkra, Vai and others.” video_url=”https://blog-staging.portalx.space/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Little-Known-African-Writing-Scripts-360p.mp4″][pt_banner_item link_button=”on” link_play=”” link_style=”style2″ text_color=”white” heading_size=”h3″ heading_style=”number” text_vertical_align=”bottom” heading=”We hope you enjoyed this section of the Portal! Please click the link below to continue to the next section.” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fportaltoai.noirlabs.org%2Ftransition-to-the-future%2F|title:Transition” link_text=”Continue to the next section” sub_heading=”The African Origins of Humanity” text=”You can also click on “Artist Bio“ to the right in order to learn more about Harmonia Rosales, the Artist featured most heavily in this section.” uniqid=”6222e76602914″][/pt_banner][/vc_column][/vc_row]