Harlem Renaissance Sculptor Augusta Savage Inspired Generations With Her Work! https://shinemycrown.com/harlem-renaissance-sculptor-augusta-savage-inspired-generations-with-her-work/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #AugustaSavage #HarlemRenaissance #Sculpture #ArtHistory #BlackArtists
I’ve been on a real goth rock, indie kick. Like A LOT! And I’ve been really obsessed with d4vd and Dews Pegahorn’s indie tracks! I wish Dews would sing in German like he did with his older stuff, but I’ll take it.
Check this out if you’re into some new school type goth rock stuff. So good!
Next Textile Talk (free, over zoom, Wednesday March 26, 2:00-3:00 PM EDT GMT/UTC -4): We Gather at the Edge: Black Women and Contemporary Quilts, presented by SAQA
"[This] is an exhibition that celebrates Dr. Carolyn Mazloomi's collection acquired by the Smithsonian American Art Museum in 2024. The exhibition is organized around themes that reveal why Black women gather."
Preregister at https://www.saqa.com/events/we-gather-edge-black-women-and-contemporary-quilts-presented-saqa
Africa: 'Paris Noir' Exhibition Showcases Work Made in French Capital By Black Artists: [RFI] The 'Paris Noir' exhibition at the Pompidou Centre brings together works by African, American, Caribbean and Afro-descendant artists who lived and worked in Paris between the 1950s and the end of the 1990s. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJjSyW #ParisNoir #BlackArtists #ArtExhibition #PompidouCentre #AfricanArt
Celebrating Pamela J. Joyner! A Woman on a Mission to Elevate Black Artists https://shinemycrown.com/celebrating-pamela-j-joyner-a-woman-on-a-mission-to-elevate-black-artists/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #PamelaJJoyner #BlackArtists #ArtWorld #SupportBlackArt #WomenInArt
"Untitled (Moon Over a Harbor)," Edward Mitchell Bannister, c. 1868.
Bannister (1828-1901) was a Canadian-born Black artist who painted mostly in what is known as the American Barbizon school, an offshoot of the French Barbizon school of art, which specialized in simple scenes painted directly from nature. While American Barbizon artists usually focused on rural and farm scenes, but other settings, like this harbor, were used as well.
Bannister received national attention when he won first place in painting at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition. He was also an activist, a vocal abolitionist and social justice crusader. He was a prominent figure in Boston's Black artistic community.
Sadly, during his life his artistic style fell from favor, and after his death he was largely forgotten until the late 1960s, when his work was rediscovered by researchers of Black American history. Now he's regarded as a great Canadian-American original.
From the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
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The house may be Victorian, but the colourful decor, murals, and garden are a unique work of 20thC outsider art that deserve to be saved.
@londonermag.bsky.social on Mr Pink's house in Lewisham, and what it says about Windrush-era Caribbean-British identity.
Your Black History Month art post for today: Nelson Stevens (1938-2022), "Yes, We Will," 1972, Mixed media on cream wove paper, 37 1/2x29 7/8 inches (953x759 mm), photo: Swann Auction Galleries April 22nd, 2021. #BlackHistoryMonth #blackart #blackartists
A professor of art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst for more than 30 years, Stevens was associated with the AfriCOBRA movement.
An excerpt from Swann Auction Galleries' essay on this group: ‘The philosophical mission of AfriCOBRA was to create images committed to a sublime expression of the African diaspora that would be identified by and reflected on by all black people. AfriCOBRA's goal was to unite all members of the African Diaspora-they wanted to eliminate the western idea of the self and embrace the progress of the community. The founding members wanted to honor the past, contextualize the present, and prepare for a bright future. To this end, they created a mission statement and tenets that became a manifesto, written by Jeff Donaldson. The artists believed that through collective consciousness their art and objects would propel social and political change in their communities. The aesthetic principles of AfriCOBRA adhered to the ideals of "bright colors, the human figure, lost and found line, lettering, and images which identified the social, economic and political conditions of our ethnic group.".They wanted to embrace "specific visual qualities intrinsic to our ethnic group."' https:// www.swanngalleries.com/news/african-american-art/2020/04/africobra/
Sissieretta Jones: The Black Soprano Of American Opera https://shinemycrown.com/sissieretta-jones-the-black-soprano-of-american-opera/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #SissierettaJones #BlackHistoryMonth #Opera #ClassicalMusic #BlackArtists
Painting of the Day. The Dancers
> > https://www.artcameroon.com/the-dancers/
It's a joyful surreal painting of a pair of barefoot dancers moving in unison, their bodies swaying, and their arms outstretched. The colors of the painting are bold and saturated, and the overall effect is one of exuberance and celebration.
Angu Walters
94 x 120 centimeters
37 x 47 inches
$1900
#AfricanArt #paintingoftheday #painting #acrylicpainting #blackart #blackartists
Click for better resolution. Your Black History Month art post for today: by Alma Thomas (1891-1978), "Hello Dolly," acrylic with pencil on canvas board, c. 1967, 24x18 inches (610x457 mm), photo: Christie’s auction house, December 14, 2023. #BlackHistoryMonth #arthistory #blackart #womanartist #blackartists
From the Christie’s lot essay: “Radiating against a glowing pink and yellow background, Pearl Bailey stands firmly at the center of Alma Thomas’s Hello Dolly. There is no question of focus: Bailey is unequivocally the star of this painting. With her hands held wide, she is frozen in the middle of a song, suspended just for a moment on to the canvas. Her gaze extends beyond the pictorial plane, mimicking how she would have appeared in the play’s iconic staircase scene. The background is rendered impressionistically, with painterly brush strokes heightening the sense of movement and theatricality within the work. Though the audience is not within view, the dynamic brush strokes capture the energy and liveliness of the theatre. Painted after Thomas attended the National Theatre’s all-Black rendition of the infamous musical, Hello Dolly!, the present lot is a token of history as well as a journey into a rare section of the artist’s oeuvre.”
Your Black History Month art post for today: by Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017), “Lawdy Mama,” 1969, oil and gold leaf on canvas, 53 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (136.5 x 92.1 cm), in the collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. #Art #blackart #blackartist #blackartists #BlackHistoryMonth
Art critic Yinka Elujoba describes this work as “a luminous painting of a Black woman cleverly layered on gold leaf with an Afro sitting on her head like a halo, complementing the arched canvas.” New York Times, Sept. 28, 2023.
I just backed my friend's cooperative card game. I love apocalypses with additions to our reality, and this one has GIANT REPTILE FRIENDS (some call them dragons i guess) plus it is #Afrofuturism, #FamilyFriendly, and features #HumanArtist work!
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1154636392/prosper-with-dragons
Your Black History Month art post for today: by Augusta Savage (1892-1962), “Gwendolyn Knight,” painted plaster, 18 1/2 x 8 1/2 x 9 in. (47 x 21.6 x 22.9 cm), Seattle Art Museum. #arthistory #BlackHistoryMonth #blackart #blackartists #womanartist #womenartists
From the website: “After studying sculpture in New York and Paris, the sculptor Augusta Savage opened the Savage School of Arts and Crafts in Harlem in 1931. She became a mentor to a generation of young artists, including Jacob Lawrence and Gwendolyn Knight, of whom this bust is a portrait. Modeled in clay and cast in plaster, it captures Knight’s delicate features, penetrating personality, and formidable presence. Savage unveiled this bust at an exhibition of her students’ work at the Harlem Art Workshop in February 1935. Because she lacked the resources to cast her plaster pieces in bronze, few examples of her work survive—this is a rare exception.”
Your Black History Month art post for today: by Alonzo Adams, born in 1961, "Phenomenal Woman," watercolor and pencil, 1993, 22 1/4x29 3/4 inches (565x756 mm), Signed, titled, dated and inscribed "To: Dr. Angelou - You give me hope and inspiration," photo from Swann Auction Galleries Sep 15, 2015. This work was in the collection of author Maya Angelou (1928-2014). The artist's website: https://www.alonzoadams.com #blackart #blackartist #blackartists #BlackHistoryMonth
Rutgers–Camden Center for the Arts had a solo exhibition of the artist’s work last Fall and describes him as ‘a contemporary realist figurative painter who tells stories of the Black experience…. Alonzo draws inspiration from artists such as Charles White, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and Rembrandt. At a crucial moment in his journey as an artist, Maya Angelou told him to “Go out into the world, soak it up like a sponge. Go back to your studio and wring it out.” Because of this advice, Alonzo has traveled widely—to Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, and throughout America.’
Your Black History Month art post for today: by Lawrence Finney (born 1963), “The Struggle to Understand,” 2000, oil on canvas, 36x36 inches (914x914 cm), photo: Swann Auction Galleries, Feb 14, 2013. #blackart #blackartist #blackartists
From Hearne Fine Art, Little Rock, Arkansas: “Finney's art gives the viewer an up-close glimpse of everyday men and women at the cusps of spiritual or emotional awakening. He concentrates on subject matter of people from the streets of urban cities, rural life in the South and vaguely surreal settings. For heightened impact Finney practices expressive distortion of his figures, described as monumentally robust and of titanic strength, contrasted with gentle disposition and setting. An important symbolic device he utilizes is the use of light, which conveys a spiritual mood. Through light expressed in a setting's central glow or some figures emitting a supernatural glow. Finney concentrates on controlled strength, spiritual depth and human potential expressed in the style of an imagined reality.
His present work now, is focused in terms of spiritual meaning, centered on my Christian faith by utilizing a style more reflective of the observed natural world, light still an important element in the work. The works are some didactic, incorporating text and some metaphorical, intended though not required to be viewed through a Biblical/Christian prism.”
