Charles White
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Impacts on Modern Design — Fitgi Saint-Louis
Fitgi Saint-Louis is a multidisciplinary artist based in Harlem, NY. Her work considers the intertwined nature of identity, remembrance and community within African, American and Caribbean cultures. Appearing in paint, textiles and sculpture, her abstracted figures honor the multifaceted ancestry of the African diaspora. With a background in design, Saint-Louis utilizes form and color to…
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Remembering Charles Alston
This coming Friday, West Harlem Art Fund will moderate a panel discussion on Mexican Muralism and its impact on American art. If you are familiar with the subject, you know that the movement was immortalized by Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Siqueiros. But their reach crossed North America too with several artists of…
Academy of Arts and Letters, American illustrator, American muralist, American painter, American sculptor, Augusta Savage, Charles Alston, Charles White, City College, City University of New York, David Siqueiros, Diego Rivera, Elba Lightfoot, Elizabeth Catlett, Federal Art Project, Georgiette Seabrook, Harlem Community Art Center, Harlem Hospital Murals, Jacob Lawrence, Jose Clemente Orozco, Mexican Muralism Movement, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, WPA
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Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking
Robert Blackburn & Modern American Printmaking at the Detroit Institute of Arts Museum celebrates both the artist and the democratic and diverse creative community he developed. Born of Jamaican immigrants and raised in Harlem, Blackburn was an innovative printmaker and influential teacher. Blackburn explored avant-garde ideas while promoting a new collaborative approach to printmaking. The…
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THE RISE OF CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AMERICAN ART
I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence. Like failure, chaos contains information that can lead to knowledge – even wisdom. Like art. Toni Morrison LIVING BLACK ARTISTS Yamou Abderrahim, Virgil Ablon, Nina Chanel…
Aaron Douglas, Beauford Delaney, Charles Alston, Charles White, David Hammons, Ed Clarke, Edward Mitchell Bannister, Elizabeth Catlett, Emma Amos, Faith Ringgold, Frank Bowling, Glenn Ligon, Hale Woodruff., Jean-Michel Basquiat, John Biggers, Kerry James Marshall, Mark Bradford, Robert Colescott, Romare Bearden, Sam Gilliam, Selma Burke, Speaker Victor, Thorton Dial, William H. Johnson
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CHARLES WHITE AT MoMA
“ART MUST BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE STRUGGLE” “It can’t simply mirror what’s taking place. … It must ally itself with the forces of liberation.” Over the course of his four-decade career, White’s commitment to creating powerful images of African Americans—what his gallerist and, later, White himself described as “images of dignity”—was unwavering. Using…
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