Ahead of May’s Elections to the European Parliament, the Alternative for Germany party has launched a campaign called “Learning from Europe’s history”. It uses pieces of classical art to make a point about current events in Europe, including criticism against migration policies.
The Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, US, has lashed out at the right-wing Alternative for Germany party (AfD) for using the 1866 painting “Slave Market” by Jean-Leon Gerome for posters of their European election campaign. The work of art, kept in the US museum and depicting a Muslim-looking dark-skinned slave trader with a lighter-skinned, apparently enslaved, young woman, appeared in Berlin’s streets with the captions “Europeans vote AfD!” and “So Europe doesn’t become Eurabia!”