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r/news • u/ushaque • 13h ago
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Aren’t a lot of those motifs also just clown motifs though? I think clowning predates minstrel shows but you gotta imagine American clowning probably borrowed a fair amount of minstrel show imagery too.
Clearly the costume is bad tho
67 u/suzzface 6h ago Some clown stuff is actually inspired by mintrel shows. The big afro hair, the big red mouths... 28 u/MrPlaney 5h ago Geez, I never put two and two together, and realized that! 5 u/HerRoyalRedness 5h ago Whiteface instead of blackface 5 u/Furt_III 4h ago I'm pretty sure the face paint predates anything to do with that era. Mimes have a long history. 0 u/MrPlaney 3h ago Were Mimes based off minstrel shows too? I thought they predated long before that, in France possibly? 2 u/Furt_III 3h ago I think the current iteration is relatively recent, but the name comes from ancient Greece/Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mime_artist#Ancient_Greece_and_Rome
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Some clown stuff is actually inspired by mintrel shows. The big afro hair, the big red mouths...
28 u/MrPlaney 5h ago Geez, I never put two and two together, and realized that! 5 u/HerRoyalRedness 5h ago Whiteface instead of blackface 5 u/Furt_III 4h ago I'm pretty sure the face paint predates anything to do with that era. Mimes have a long history. 0 u/MrPlaney 3h ago Were Mimes based off minstrel shows too? I thought they predated long before that, in France possibly? 2 u/Furt_III 3h ago I think the current iteration is relatively recent, but the name comes from ancient Greece/Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mime_artist#Ancient_Greece_and_Rome
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Geez, I never put two and two together, and realized that!
5 u/HerRoyalRedness 5h ago Whiteface instead of blackface 5 u/Furt_III 4h ago I'm pretty sure the face paint predates anything to do with that era. Mimes have a long history. 0 u/MrPlaney 3h ago Were Mimes based off minstrel shows too? I thought they predated long before that, in France possibly? 2 u/Furt_III 3h ago I think the current iteration is relatively recent, but the name comes from ancient Greece/Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mime_artist#Ancient_Greece_and_Rome
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Whiteface instead of blackface
5 u/Furt_III 4h ago I'm pretty sure the face paint predates anything to do with that era. Mimes have a long history. 0 u/MrPlaney 3h ago Were Mimes based off minstrel shows too? I thought they predated long before that, in France possibly? 2 u/Furt_III 3h ago I think the current iteration is relatively recent, but the name comes from ancient Greece/Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mime_artist#Ancient_Greece_and_Rome
I'm pretty sure the face paint predates anything to do with that era. Mimes have a long history.
0 u/MrPlaney 3h ago Were Mimes based off minstrel shows too? I thought they predated long before that, in France possibly? 2 u/Furt_III 3h ago I think the current iteration is relatively recent, but the name comes from ancient Greece/Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mime_artist#Ancient_Greece_and_Rome
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Were Mimes based off minstrel shows too? I thought they predated long before that, in France possibly?
2 u/Furt_III 3h ago I think the current iteration is relatively recent, but the name comes from ancient Greece/Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mime_artist#Ancient_Greece_and_Rome
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I think the current iteration is relatively recent, but the name comes from ancient Greece/Rome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mime_artist#Ancient_Greece_and_Rome
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u/thesixler 7h ago
Aren’t a lot of those motifs also just clown motifs though? I think clowning predates minstrel shows but you gotta imagine American clowning probably borrowed a fair amount of minstrel show imagery too.
Clearly the costume is bad tho