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Topics of non-europeans art (ARH250) notes
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Topics of non-europeans art (ARH250) notes unit 1
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Fire, 1926● Demonstrated an alternative approach to Black art & aesthetics insisting that the process
of racial uplift be a discursive one.
● Promoted forms like jazz & blues
● Also the first text to include creative writing and visual art specific to Black gay &
sexuality.
Fire was an African-American literary magazine published in New York City in 1926 during the
Harlem Renaissance. The publication was started by Wallace Thurman, Zora Neale Hurston,
Aaron Douglas, John P. Davis, Richard Bruce Nugent, Gwendolyn Bennett, Lewis Grandison
Alexander, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes.
Romare Bearden Factory Workers, 1942 (Gouache & casein on craft paper)
● Romare Bearden “The Negro Artisits & Modern Art,” 1936 (critic on black artists lack of
innovation)
Romare Bearden
● Lack of training, critical community, opportunity to share work beyond Harlem, buying
public ; to help establish a foundation for black artists.
Political, Cultural Environment of Mid-century America
1. The rise of leftist politics among American artists: Establishment of desegregated
Artist Union.
2. Pan Africanism : Understanding for interconnectivity
3. Universalist discourses of humanism
4. Displacement of social realism
CORE ( Freedom Ride)
● Congress of racial Equality
● Non-violent protest
Norman Rockwell The Problem we All Live With, 1963-4 (oil on canvas)
● Based on images of 6 yr old Ruby Bridges being escorted to school by US marshalls
● Glen McCoy, made a similar piece yet used a politician and behind it sayed conservative
Norman Rockwell New Kids in the Neighborhood (Negro in the Suburbs), 1967 (oil on canvas)
● Hope with the younger generation
● Inviting narrative
, Spiral
● Given by Hale Woodruff
● Significance : like a spiral “Moves outward, embracing all directions, yet continually
upwards”
Felrath Hines Untitled,1960
● Abstract Landscape
● Untitled, early 1970s (oil on canvas)
● Restored many famous paintings (ex: Monet's Water Lilies)
Hale Woodruff
● Africa and the Bull
Romare Bearden Conjure Woman ,1964 (photo projection)
Romare Bearden Train Whistle Blues ll , 1964 (Photo projection)
● Light and dark creating an illusion
● Out of memory, piecing together a collage out of memory
Romare Bearden The Dove
● Slowing down our viewing
● Time element
○ By manipulative space and the subjects
William H. Johnson I Baptize Thee , 1940
Romare Bearden The Prevalence of Ritual: Baptism, 1964
8.26.24
1963-Present
● Edouard Manet
● Clement Greenberg “author of (Avant-Garde & Kitsch)
○ Avant-garde
■ High art, pure form, abstract, non-representational, apolitical, sublime,
materiality
○ Kitsch
■ Low art, political, narrative driven, imitative, propagandistic, instant
gratification
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