Art Class - American Painters

This is from a portion of the Martin Luther King Jr. mural at the National Historic Park in Atlanta.

Named "Dreams, Vision, and Change," it was painted by Louis Delsarte.

 For Black History Month, we're focusing on African American Painters.

Aaron Douglas, of the Harlem Renaissance, is known as the "father of Black American art."

Let My People Go, 1935


Hilda Wilkinson Brown wanted to represent Black leisure in Young Man Studying, 1933.


Her art inspired her niece, Lillian Thomas Burwell, to pursue her own.


Jacob Lawrence documented the "Great Migration" of African Americans in 1941.


Jean-Michael Basquiat's art focused on dichotomies, gaining international fame in the 1980's.

Notary, 1983


One of the most famous American painters is Norman Rockwell, and in 1964 he decided it was important to paint an image of Ruby Bridges.  He received hate mail calling him a race traitor.  Ruby herself expressed admiration for him, having "enough courage to step up to the plate and say I'm going to make a statement."


The Problem We All Live With is the "pervasive societal burden of racism and segregation."


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