This is a comprehensive overview of the first international modern art movement founded by African-American artists.
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 “groundbreaking” exhibition. entitled “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism”.
Timothy A. Clary/AFPA mural depicting rapper Tupac Shakur in New York
It is a comprehensive overview of the first international modern art movement founded by African-American artists, particularly to depict “modern daily life in new black neighborhoods like Harlem in New York and the South Side in Chicago in the 1900s. 1920-1940,” according to a statement from the Met.
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The inter-war period in the United States marks the first decades of the Great Afro-American Migration (which stretches from 1910 to 1970 according to historians) which saw some six million people leave southern states still subjugated to racial segregation to northern, midwestern, and western metropolises believed to offer freedom, equality, and better living conditions.
“Through portraits, scenes of urban life and nightlife, by major artists of the time, this exhibition highlights the central role of the movement (“Harlem Renaissance”) in shaping the modern black subject and even the early 20th century modern art,” Met CEO Max Hollein said in a statement.
Featured artists include Charles Alston, Miguel Covarrubias, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, William H. Johnson, Archibald Motley, Jr., Winold Reiss, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee and Laura Wheeler Waring.
2023-08-24 05:26:00
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