Examples of Black Arts Movement in the following topics:
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- The transAfrican style of art was manifest in the work of Jeff Donaldson, an African American visual artist whose work helped define the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s.
- In the midst of the racial and cultural turmoil of the 1960s, a group of African-American artists endeavored to relate its artwork to the black masses.
- Aiming to use art for social impact, artists such as Jeff Donaldson strived to create an "art for the people": an art form that was recognizable by and directed toward everyday people, rather than a group of well-educated elite.
- One of his key works, Victory in the Valley of Eshu (1970), depicts an elderly black couple holding what appears to be an eye-shaped pinwheel.
- This effect achieves the celebration aspect of black art: an art that, as stated by Donaldson, defines, glorifies, and directs black people—an art for the people's sake.
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- Archaic black- and red-figure painting began to depict more naturalistic bodies by conveying form and movement.
- While many figures still stand flat-footed, the limbs of people, horses, and centaurs show movement and are dramatic compositions within the confines of the style.
- He is regarded by art historians as an artistic visionary whose masterful use of incision and psychologically sensitive compositions mark him as one of the greatest of all Attic vase painters.
- His vessels depict people in movement and he attempted perspective by showing figures with foreshortened limbs.
- Athenian Black-figure amphora.
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- Cynical realism is a contemporary movement in Chinese art, especially in the form of painting, that began in the 1990s and has become one of the most popular contemporary art movements in mainland China.
- Indigenous art centres have fostered the emergence of the contemporary art movement, and as of 2010 were estimated to represent over 5000 artists, mostly in Australia's north and west.
- Post-black art is a phrase that refers to a category of contemporary African American art.
- It is a paradoxical genre of art where race and racism are intertwined in a way that rejects their interaction; it is art about the black experience that attempts to dispel the notion that race matters.
- While the notion of "post-black" attempts to avoid identity labels, the title of "post-black" serves as an ethnic marker.
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- There are thousands of examples of women associated with the feminist art movement.
- Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict aspects of modernism or emerged in its aftermath.
- In general, movements such as Intermedia, Installation art, Conceptual Art and Multimedia, particularly involving video, are described as postmodern.
- There are thousands of examples of women associated with the feminist art movement.
- Analyze the growth of the postmodern feminist art movement in the 1960s and 1970s.
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- The Harlem Renaissance (1920s-1930s) was an African-American cultural movement known for its proliferation in art, music, and literature.
- The Harlem Renaissance was a cultural movement in the United States that spanned the 1920s and 1930s.
- While the zenith of the movement occurred between 1924 and 1929, its ideas have lived on much longer.
- At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement," named after the 1925 anthology by Alain Locke.
- Lawrence's works are in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including thePhiladelphia Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Phillips Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and Reynolda House Museum of American Art.
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- Islamic art encompasses the visual arts produced from the 7th century onwards by people who lived within the territory that was inhabited or ruled by culturally Islamic populations.
- Islamic art is not restricted to religious art; it includes all the art of the rich and varied cultures of Islamic societies as well.
- Apart from the ever-present calligraphic inscriptions, specifically religious art is actually less prominent in Islamic art than in Western medieval art, with the exception of Islamic architecture where mosques and their complexes of surrounding buildings are the most common remains.
- The Mughal miniature movement began by importing Persian artists, especially a group brought back by Humayun when exiled in Safavid, Persia.
- The Mughals also introduced the bidri technique of metalwork in which silver motifs are pressed against a black background.
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- The Ashcan School was a movement within American Realism known for portraying scenes of daily life in New York's poorer neighborhoods.
- The Ashcan School, also known as "The Eight," was central to the new American Modernism in the visual arts.
- The first known use of the "ashcan" terminology in describing the movement was by Art Young in 1916.
- George Bellows, Both Members of This Club, 1909 (oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art)
- Everett Shinn, Robert Henri and John Sloan, c. 1896 (unidentified photographer, black and white print, 18 x 13 cm.)
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- Art in Nigeria post-independence has been characterized by a continued fusion of European and traditional Nigerian arts, along with a movement to break away from European styles.
- Art in Nigeria post-independence has been characterized by a continued fusion of European and traditional Nigerian arts, along with a movement to break away from European styles and embrace purely traditional styles once more, as seen in the works of Enwonwu and Okeke and the emergence of the Négritude Movement.
- Enwonwu studied Fine Arts under Kenneth C.
- Before being admitted to the Fine Arts program at Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology in 1958, Okeke—together with Yusuf Grillo, Bruce Onobrakpeya, Demas Nwoko, and others—inaugurated the Zaria Art Society.
- Négritude intellectuals disapproved of French colonialism and claimed that the best strategy to oppose it was to encourage a common racial identity for black Africans worldwide.
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- In the early 20th century, a photographic movement developed that sought to legitimize photography as a creative art form on par with painting—rather than simply a scientific method of documentation.
- As true art was deemed a product of imagination, skill, and craft, both amateur and professional photographers challenged the social conceptions of photography by producing the style known as art photography.
- Photographer Alfred Steiglitz (1864–1946) led the Photo-Secession movement, a movement that promoted photography as a fine art and sought to raise standards and awareness of art photography.
- He was best known for his portraits of black New Yorkers and produced the most comprehensive documentation of the period.
- Contrast the Precisionist Movement with the earlier Photo-Secession movement, analyzing their motivations