By Le Figaro with AFP
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The Woman in Blue, a work by William Henry Johnson, is one of the artists exhibited at the Met. HANDOUT / AFP
Beginning next February, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will feature 160 works of modern art from historic black universities, art centers and foundations, for The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism exhibit.
African-American Paintings, Photos, Sculptures and Literary Works: New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met) Celebrates the Art Movement Born of the Great Migration of Millions of Black People from the South to the North and West of the United States in the first half of the 20th century.
Starting next February, one of the world’s most prestigious museums will showcase 160 works of modern art from historic black universities, art centers and foundations, the Met announced on Tuesday evening for this exhibition “revolutionary» titled The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.
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It is a complete panorama of the first international modern art movement founded by African-American artists, in particular to represent “the modern daily life of new black neighborhoods like Harlem in New York and South Side in Chicago in the 1920s-1940s”, according to a statement from the Met. The interwar period in the United States marks the first decades of the Great African-American Migration (spanning from 1910 to 1970 according to historians) which saw some six million people leave still subjugated Southern states to racial segregation to northern, midwestern, and western metropolises that are supposed to offer freedom, equality, and better living conditions.
«Thanks to portraits, scenes of urban and nocturnal life, by major artists of the time, this exhibition highlights the central role of the movement Harlem Renaissance to shape the modern black subject and even early 20th century modern art“, Estimated, quoted in a press release, the CEO of the Met, Max Hollein. Featured artists include Charles Alston, Miguel Covarrubias, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, William Henry Johnson, Archibald Motley, Jr., Winold Reiss, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee and Laura Wheeler Waring.
Part of the exhibition will compare paintings by African-American artists who spent time in Europe with portraits of African people by European artists such as Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Germaine Casse, Kees Van DongenJacob Epstein et Ronald Moody.
2023-08-25 07:00:00
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