post-black art

Examples of post-black art in the following topics:

• Political Art: Race and Ethnicity in the 1990s

  • The terms "urban art", "guerrilla art", "post-graffiti" and "neo-graffiti" are also sometimes used when referring to artwork created in these contexts .
  • 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.
  • It uses enigmatic themes wherein black can substitute for white.
  • While the notion of "post-black" attempts to avoid identity labels, the title of "post-black" serves as an ethnic marker.

• Race and Ethnicity in Postmodernism

  • It is often associated with deconstruction and post-structuralism because its usage as a term gained significant popularity at the same time as twentieth-century post-structural thought.
  • A great deal of art during this era sought to deconstruct race through a postmodern lens.
  • Galleries and community art centers were developed for the purpose of displaying African-American art, and collegiate teaching positions were created by and for African-American artists .
  • Post-black art arose during this time as a category of contemporary African-American art.
  • The National Endowment for the Arts provided increasing support for these artists.

• Nigerian Art Post-Independence

  • 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.

• Gender

  • Postmodern art is a body of art movements that sought to contradict aspects of modernism or emerged in its aftermath.
  • It also sought to bring more visibility to women within art history and art practice.
  • In particular it attacks the use of sharp binary classifications such as male versus female, straight versus gay, white versus black, and imperial versus colonial; it holds realities to be plural and relative, and to be dependent on who the interested parties are and the nature of these interests.
  • Postmodern feminism is an approach to feminist theory that incorporates postmodern and post-structuralist theory, and thus sees itself as moving beyond the modernist polarities of liberal feminism and radical feminism.
  • Miriam Schapiro, co-founder of the Feminist Art Program at Cal Arts;

• Cézanne

  • A prize for special achievement in the arts was created in his memory.
  • Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) was a French artist and Post-Impressionism painter whose work began the transition from the 19th-century conception of artistic endeavor to a new and radically different world of art.
  • A prize for special achievement in the arts was created in his memory.
  • The Black Marble Clock, with it's heavy use of black and dark colors, exemplifies the type of work Cezanne created during his "Dark Period" in his early career.
  • Discuss the evolution and influence of Cezanne's style of painting during the Post-Impressionist movement.

• Woodcarving in the Northwest Coast Cultures

  • If paint was used to decorate an object, the most common colors were traditionally red and black, though yellow was often used as well, particularly among Kwakwaka'wakw artists.
  • Totem poles are monumental sculptures carved on poles, posts, or pillars with symbols or figures made from large trees (mostly western red cedar) by indigenous peoples of the Pacific Northwest coast.
  • Eighteenth-century European invaders documented the existence of decorated interior and exterior house posts prior to 1800.
  • The production of their art dropped off drastically as well.
  • Today, there are numerous art schools teaching formal Northwest Coast art of various styles, and there is a growing market for new art in this style.

• Maori Art in New Zealand

  • Traditional New Zealand art consists of the art of the Māori people, who first settled the island between 1250-1300 CE.
  • New Zealand art includes traditional Māori art, which was developed in New Zealand from Polynesian art forms, and more recent forms which take their inspiration from Māori, European, and other traditions.
  • The colors black, white, and red dominated.
  • In 'classical' Māori art, painting was not an important art form.
  • Late 20th century carved house post depicting the navigator Kupe.

• Contemporary Art

  • Contemporary art is the overall production of art made after World War II.
  • Not all art labeled 'contemporary' is modern or postmodern, and the term contemporary encompasses both artists who continue to work in modernist or late modernist traditions, as well as artists who reject modernism for post-modernism or other reasons.
  • Some don't believe that the period called modernism is over or even near the end, and there certainly is no agreement that all art after modernism is post-modern, nor that postmodern art is universally separated from modernism; many critics see it as merely another phase in modern art or another form of late Modernism.
  • In some descriptions post-modernism as a period in art history is completed, whereas in others it is a continuing movement in Contemporary art.
  • Differentiate between the categories of late modernism and post modernism in art.

• Norse Timber Architecture in the Early European Middle Ages

  • Timber architecture can be used to describe a period of medieval art in which two distinctive wood building traditions found their confluence in Norwegian architecture.
  • Not counting the 28 remaining stave churches, at least 250 wooden houses predating the Black Death of 1350 are preserved more or less intact in Norway.
  • Over the two centuries of stave church construction, this building type evolved to an advanced art and science.
  • The first was the Kaupanger group that had a complete arcade row of posts and intermediate posts along the sides and details that mimic stone capitals.
  • Intermediate posts have been omitted.

• The "New Negro"

  • The "New Negro" is defined as the self-confidence and active refusal to obey Jim Crow-era laws of the post-World War I black community.
  • In France, for example, black soldiers experienced the kind of freedom they had never known in the U.S.
  • Having experienced freedom and respect in France they had never known at home, African-American soldiers returned to find that discrimination against blacks was just as present as it was before the war.
  • There is no doubt that despite the difficult challenges of race and class in the 1920s, a new spirit of hope and pride marked black activity and expression in all areas.
  • The New Negro movement insisted on self-definition, self-expression, and self-determination, a striving after what Locke called "spiritual emancipation. " The many debates during the Harlem Renaissance years regarding art and propaganda, representation and identity, assimilation versus militancy, and parochialism versus globalism, have enriched the perspectives on issues of art, culture, politics, and ideology that have emerged on the African-American scene since the 1930s.